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James Stevens Cox (1910-1997)

James Stevens Cox (1910-1997)

WING BOOKS PRINTED IN 1641-1700

FROM THE LIBRARY OF JAMES STEVENS COX (1910-1997)

Catalogue 1447

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WING: THE LAST HURRAH? For over half a century librarians, collectors and booksellers have relied on, as one of their major bibliographical props, the monumental Short-title Catalogue of books printed in England, , , , and British America and of English books printed in other 1641-1700. Originally compiled by Donald Wing of Yale University (hence its own eponymous short-title Wing), it was originally published in three volumes between 1945 and 1951. A massive process of revision culminated in 1994 with the publication of the revised edition of Vol. 1 (A-England). It was, as the preface to the 1994 volume notes, “quickly recognized as the premier reference tool available to scholars, librarians, and students of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries” and “hailed as an indispensable bibliographical tool”. Booksellers, particularly those servicing the voracious new University Rare Books rooms springing up across America, would keep notebooks with the holdings of their favoured libraries and sweep up any books that might fill a gap. The phrase “Not in Wing” was as honey to their ears. As both a bookseller and collector James Stevens Cox was a keen user of this new resource, as he had been for the earlier Short-title Catalogue of books printed before 1641 (STC). This can be seen in the numerous pencil notes in these books giving Wing numbers followed, for example by “3 copies” or the ultimate “Not in Wing”. Unlike STC, Wing merely delivered what it said on the title, a short title (not much help for searching by subject), very brief imprint details, and a list of located copies, with no other bibliographical information and relatively little distinction between variant issues and editions. Now, however, in this world of electronic resources the influence of Wing as a standard reference or first bibliographical port of call is waning fast. It has been replaced with the new honey of “Not in ESTC” - the online English Short Title Catalogue which encompasses the period 1475-1800, formerly covered by both STC and Wing or “Not on EEBO” (Early English Books Online) or “ECCO” (Eighteenth Century Collections Online). Booksellers, being a conservative crowd, will no doubt continue to list Wing numbers in their descriptions, as we do here, but it will become increasingly redundant, rather like an out-of-date telephone number, or the medals of a vanished empire. In the list of located copies in this catalogue we have conflated the locations given by Wing and ESTC and generally, where there are five or less known copies in either UK & Ireland or the USA & Canada, we have given details of the recorded copies. Interestingly, it does tend to give not just a geographical spread of known copies or a basic measure of rarity but more subtle judgements can also be made - a Quaker book, for example, may be known in several located copies but most might be Quaker or Nonconformist collections and it may be largely unrepresented in the larger national or University libaries, an indication that no copies may have changed hands for many decades. When we issued our Catalogue 1350 STC & Wing in 2003 we had little idea of the treasures still remaining in the Stevens Cox collection. It is unlikely that Maggs Bros will be able to produce another catalogue with over 450 books (if you count tract volumes there are well over 500 titles) printed in a 40-year period of the seventeenth century so perhaps we will now have to say this is a final Three Cheers for Wing! For a biography of James Stevens Cox please see the introduction to our Catalogue 1350 STC & Wing: Books printed in England 1500 – 1700 (2003).

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[1] [A. (T.)]. Religio Clerici. 12mo., [12], 231, [5 (adverts)] pp., engraved frontispiece by Van Hove depicting a scene from Matthew 14:30. Small piece (55 x 5mm) neatly sliced away from the lower margin of I2, minor ink spots just touching the fore-edge of G3, G4, E5 and E6, small rust spot to C10 and I7. Early 19th-century calf, gilt spine (upper joint cracked, lower joint rubbed, corners worn). London: for Henry Brome, 1681 £240 Wing A32A (+ in UK; W.A. Clark, Folger, Huntington in USA). Keynes, Sir Thomas Browne, 397. Leaves E11 & 12 have been cancelled as usual (the stubs remain). Wing A32 (+; Boston, Harvard, McGill, Yale) is another 1681 edition with 96pp, with “By T.A.” on the title. There is, however, a great deal of confusion amongst the online catlogues of the located copies as to which edition they actually have.

[2] [ABELL (William), attributed to]. A True Discovery of the proiectors of the wine proiect, out of the Vintners owne orders made at their Common hall, whereby it clearley appeares that this project was contrived at Vintners Hall by the drawing Vintners of London, and for their only advantage, to supresse the Coopers, and monopolize the sole benefit of retailing wines through this Kingdome. And hereby is also truly set forth the excessive gaines and great exactions of the Vintners in the retayle of their wines, and their unwholesome mixtures thereof. First Edition. Small 4to., 28 pp. Title-page shaved at the head with some loss to first line, dampstaining to lower corners of C3-4 and D1-2. Early 20th-century half calf and marbled boards (boards slightly faded). London: Thomas Walkley, 1641 £750 Wing T2687 (+;+). “[William] Abell’s unpopularity [as an alderman, sheriff and vintner] was further increased by his involvement with the disputed wine monopoly. This dispute had arisen some years previously in response to the king’s demands for money and his attempt to force the Vintners to raise the duty on wine from £3 to £4 per tun. They in return sought various concessions, only some of which were granted: they were forbidden to sell victuals and , but granted the monopoly of retailing wine, thus excluding the Coopers, who had previously shared the privilege. [...] At the meeting of the in 1640 complaints about the wine monopoly were made to Abell but he was saved by its dissolution. When the met later that year MPs and the Vintners’ Company accused him of having contrived the monopoly for his personal profit. Abell found himself arraigned as a delinquent and summoned to appear before the parliamentary committee of grievances; by January 1641 he was in custody, having been refused bail. In parliament resolved that the 40s. impost was illegal, as were the orders which prohibited the Coopers from buying and selling wine, and the Vintners from dressing and selling meat. Isaac Penington, MP for the , spoke on behalf of Abell, accusing Kilvert as mainly responsible, and Abell himself was the likely author of A True Discovery of the Projectors of the Wine Project (1641), which presented him as having acted with the company’s consent and solely out of concern for the company’s welfare.” - ODNB. Provenance: Once number “3” in a volume of tracts. Mid-20th-century bookseller’s catalogue cutting describing this copy (priced at £2/10/-) loosely inserted.

[3] [ALLESTREE (Richard)]. The Ladies Calling in Two Parts. By the Author of the Whole Duty of Man, &c. The Fourth Impression. 8vo., [24], 270, [2] pp., engraved frontispiece, vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre on the title. Some minor rust spotting to B2, I3 and S4 (forming a small hole), occasional marginal dampstaining and with a small (30mm) closed tear to the blank fore-margin of Z1. Contemporary brown morocco, covers gilt panelled with a floral tool at each corner, the spine divided into six gilt tool panels (joints lightly worn). : at the Theater, 1676 £450 Wing A1144 (+;+). An attractive copy. First published in 1673 The Ladies Calling follows much the same formula as Allestree’s other works by setting out clear guidelines (with reference to the scriptures) on the best way to live a morally good life. 6 MAGGS BROS LTD

[4] [ALLESTREE (Richard)]. The Ladies Calling. In Two Parts. By the Author of the Whole Duty of Man. The Fifth Impression. 8vo, [26], 270, [1] pp., engraved frontispiece, vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre on the title. Light marginal browning and occasional spotting, very small paper flaw in the lower blank margin of B2. Contemporary black morocco, covers with a fillet border, gilt panel with a small floral tool at the corners, spine with five raised bands, the panels tooled in gilt, marbled endleaves and gilt edges (corners lightly bumped, a few minor bumps and scuffs). Oxford: At the Theatre,1677 £500 Wing A1146 (+;+). Provenance: The Dymoke family, of Scrivelsby, Yorkshire, hereditary King’s Champions; appropriately owned by a lady of the family, Jane Dymoke, née Snowden (d. 1744) with her ink signature on the flyleaf “J Dymoke” and note in her hand below “was maried ye ffirst day of september being thursday 1687. Ch: Dymoke dyed January ye 17 being sunday morning 1702[/3] in ye 36 year of his age [her husband, Sir Charles Dymoke, Kt., M.P., 22nd Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby]. my mother dyed April ye 9 being saterday night 9 of ye clock 1686 in ye 64 year of her age. my ffather [Robert Snowden] dyed July ye 28 day being sunday morning abough 7 of ye clock 1700 in ye 70 year of his Age. I was borne March ye 8 day being tueday morning 8 of ye clock & in ye year 1663”. A later hand below adds “Mrs Dymoke died January 9th 1744”.

[5] ALSTED (Johann Heinrich). BIRCHENSHA (John) translator. Templum Musicum: or the Musical Synopsis, of the Learned and Famous Johannes-Henricus-Alstedius, being a Compendium of the Rudiments both of the Mathematical and Practical Part of Musick: of which Subject not any Book is extant in our English Tongue. Faithfully translated out of Latin by John Birchensha. Philomath. First Edition in English. 8vo., [16], 93 [i.e. 94] pp., without the final blank leaf; emblematic engraved frontispiece by John Chantry (inner margin torn at the head and an ink blot on the lyre of Orpheus), without the final blank leaf. Some light soiling to the title-page, margins browned throughout and with some marginal staining, small piece torn away from the upper blank margin of G7. Contemporary sheep (old rebacking, now very worn again and with the joints split and upper cover detached, corners worn, 19th-century endleaves). London: by Will. Godbid for Peter Dring, 1664 £450 Wing A2926 (British Library, Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College Cambridge and Trinity College ; + in USA). John Birchensha is best known for his music lessons in which he proffered a new method or set of rules for learning various instruments. This system was presented to the Royal Society in 1662 and Birchensha gave lessons to the great music lover Samuel Pepys, e.g. on 24 Feb. 1662: “Long with Mr. Berchenshaw in the morning at my Musique practice, finishing my song Gaze not on swans in two parts which pleases me well. And I did give him 5l for this month or five weeks he hath taught me, which is a great deal of money and troubled me to part with it.” This book is a partial translation from J.H. Alsted’s (1558-1638) Encyclopedia - a much noted early example of the form. “Birchensha’s importance rests on his certainty, extraordinary among professional musicians, that nearly every aspect of music could be rationalized. He has been described, unjustly, as a quack; but MAGGS BROS LTD 7

his failure to publish Syntagma musicae restricted his influence as a theorist, and his compositions, which include psalm settings and instrumental suites, seem clumsy and charmless when set beside the best English work of the period.” - ODNB. Provenance: Faded 19th-century red library stamp on title-page, ?”[-]HART LIBRARY”.

“I’VE DRANK ENOUGH TO QUENCH MY THIRST” [6] [AMES (Richard)]. Fatal Friendship; or the Drunkards Misery: being a Satyr against Hard Drinking. By the author of The Search after Claret. First Edition. Small 4to., [4], 26 p., [2] pp., with the final advertisement leaf. Final two leaves uncut at tail, penultimate leaf closely shaved along the upper edge (touching pagination). Disbound. London: for, and sold by Randal Taylor,1693 £400 Wing A2978 (British Library, Cambridge, Bodley, Advocates Library and Leeds; Folger, Harvard, Huntington, Newberry & Yale). Richard Ames was a tailor turned satirical poet who published a series of poems on the declining quality of claret served in London taverns (hence the reference on the title-page of this work). Fatal Friendship tell the story of a young gentlemen who is seduced by the “blessed effects of drinking to excess” (C1v).

FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE POET PHILIP AYRES [7] ANACREON. Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek. First Edition of this translation. 8vo., [22], 72, 79-114 pp. Leaf (c)1 is duplicated; (c)2 was also duplicated, but the second leaf has been torn away. Lightly browned, damp staining along the lower edge of a1-4, the corners of K2-L2, and the fore-margin of P1-2 and in the top half of the last few leaves, small rust-hole in D2 (affecting one letter on each side), marginal rust-spot on H1. Contemporary calf, spine gilt and lettered (headcap damaged and with upper joint slightly split at the head). Oxford: by L. Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Anthony Stephens, 1683 £1500 Wing A.3046 (+;+). Free translations of 52 poems by various hands, including Abraham Cowley (11 poems), John Oldham, Thomas Wood and Francis Wallis. There is an interesting preface signed “S.B.”, who describes himself as the “author”, but has not been identified. This is the second English collection of Anacreon, preceded only by Thomas Stanley’s translation of 1651. Provenance: 1: Philip Ayres (1638-1712), poet and translator from Spanish and Italian, author of Emblemata amatoria (1683) and Lyrick Poems (1687). “The former was the last of the English emblem books to achieve a popular success” (ODNB); inscribed “Sum Philippi Ayresij. 1683” on the title-page; his library was sold in a fixed-price sale by Samuel Ballard [etc] on 10 November 1713: Bibliotehca Ayresiana: or, a catalogue of the library of Philip Ayres, Esq; consisting of very valuable and scarce books in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish and English in most faculties; the greater part collected beyond-sea. 2: “Madm Mary Redman”, ink signature on the pastedown under the bookplate of: 3: John Holmes (1702/3- 60), of Holt, Norfolk, Master of Gresham’s School, and writer on education (see ODNB), with his signature “Jno. Holmes. 1736. No. 440” on the front flyleaf, bookplate dated 1755 on the front 8 MAGGS BROS LTD

pastedown (partly lifted); another 18th-century engraved label on the rear-pastedown with flowers and motto “Tantus Amor Florum” [such a love of flowers; from Vergil’s Georgics ]. 4: Early 19th-century circular label with a manuscript lot number “12/4” pasted to the foot of the front flyleaf. 5: Christie-Miller, of Britwell Court, with pencil shelf mark on front flyleaf, sale, Sotheby, 12/3/23, lot 17, £5/5/- to Quaritch. 6: Maggs Bros., with cost code “2/52 qoo” and cutting from Catalogue 865/36 (1956), £15 loosely inserted; sold to JSC on 28/6/1960.

[8] ANACREON & SAPPHO. Anacreontis teii Carmina. Plourimis quibus hactenus scatebant mendis purgavit, turbata metra restituit, notasque cum nova interpretatione literali adjecit Willielmus Baxter. Subjiciuntur etiam duo vetustissimæ poetriæ Sapphus elegantissima odaria, una cum correctione Isaaci Vossii: et Theocriti Anacreonticum in mortuum Adonin. 8vo. [12], 131 pp. One or two leaves with very minor staining to the lower blank margin, minor worming to the fore-margin of C8. Contemporary calf (joints worn, corners bumped and with spine label missing). London: Apud Gualt. Kettilby, 1695 £150 Wing A3045 (+;+). First printing of a critical edition of Anacreon by the classicist and antiquary William Baxter (1650-1723) to which is added two poems by Sappho. Provenance: 1: early shelfmark on the front pastedown. 2: Marcus Anthony Morgan, M.P. for Athy (Ireland), of Cottlestown, Co. Sligo, with mid-18th-century signature at the head of the title. 3: George Philips, late 19th-century armorial bookplate.

[9] Anthropologie Abstracted: or the Idea of Humane Nature reflected in briefe Philosophicall, and Anatomicall collections. First Edition. 8vo., [8], 201 [i.e. 191], [1 (blank)] pp. Small chip from the blank corner of A2, minor rust-spot in the blank fore- margin of A3, light stain at the head in the first part, text lightly browned, a large (5mm) rust hole in the lower blank inner margin of I1, closely trimmed along the upper edge in places. Contemporary sheep (rebacked, corners repaired, lower cover scuffed; new endleaves). London: for Henry Herringman, 1655 £700 Wing A3483 (+ in UK; CSU-Sutro, W.A.Clark, Michigan, U.S. National Library of Medicine, New York Academy of Medicine, Yale). Reportedly the first use of the term “anthropology” - in the Aristotelian sense - in the (Sarat Chandra Roy, Principles and methods of physical anthropology, 1920). The work is split into individual chapters covering the human soul, nutrition and each of the senses. The publisher Henry Herringman explains in his preface that “this orphan piece” was written by a “Person so Eminent both for Wit and Learning, that the University wherein He was educated, and at length deservedly honoured with the Degree of Doctor in Physick, esteemed him as one of the most hopefull of his Profession, and one of the choicest Plants in all her Seminary; and when the hasty hand of Fate had crop’t him in the Budd, lamented his immature Death, with Generall sorrow, ... Whether the Author ever intended to Communicate it to the Publique, I could by no meanes learn: but the Exactnesse of the work may, in some sort, warrant my Conjecture, that he wrote it not onely for his own use: it being not usuall, for Learned men to bestow so much sweat and oyle upon polishing and adorning their private Collections and Memorialls, as was necessary to make this accurate. However, my good Fortune hath, after more than a dozen years since the Authors decease, brought it into my hands; ...”. Provenance: “Lo: Aston”, contemporary ink signature in the centre of the title; probably Walter Aston, 2nd Baron Aston of Forfar (1609-78), of Tixall, Staffordshire, and Standon, Hertfordshire.

A RARE EARLY NOVEL [10] [ARGENCES (Tanneguy Joseph Cauvin, sieur d’)]. SPENCE (Ferrand) translator. The Countess of Salisbury; or, the most noble Order of the Garter. An historical novel. In two parts. Done out of French by Mr. Ferrand Spence. First Edition. 12mo., [12], 216 pp. Small piece torn away from the upper edge of the title-page, blank lower fore-corner of D1-2 torn, a number of slightly short uncut lower edges (E1, E11-12, F2), long closed tear across the centre of F10, paper flaw at the corner of I1. Contemporary blind ruled sheep (leather torn away from the upper cover exposing the board, headcaps torn away, all edges heavily worn). London: R. Bentley and S. Magnes, 1683 [-1682] £750 MAGGS BROS LTD 9

Wing A3630 (British Library [2 copies]; W.A. Clark, Harvard [not on HOLLIS], Library of Congress, Newberry Library, Princeton & Yale). Also re-issued with The Court-Secret. A. Novel. Part I [- II.] (1689) by Peter Belon as part of Modern Novels. Vol. III. published by Bentley in 1692 (Wing M2340 (BL & W.A. Clark only). The second part has a separate title dated 1682 (on F5) but continuous register and pagination. The presense of a signature “A” at the foot of the title suggests that it may always have been intended to form part of a collection (see above). Described as a “proto-historical novel” (Letellier The English novel, 1660-1700: an annotated bibliography). it recounts the supposed origins of the Order of the Garter: “...the King was dancing with the Countess, one of that fair Ladies Garters falling by chance, that Prince took it up suddenly: And as that made all the Assembly laugh, he said, for the justifying his intention, Honi foit qui mal y pense [...] Edward took it ill, and said aloud, with some heat, which sufficiently shewed his displeasure, That it should not be long ere Sovereign Honour were done to the Garter; and that, those who now despise the Garter shall one day hold it for an honour to wear it” (D2r). Provenance: Anne Whyte, contemporary signature on the title-page.

THE MOST POPULAR EARLY-MODERN SEX MANUAL [11] ARISTOTLE, attributed to. Aristoteles Master-Piece, or, the Secrets of Generation displayed in all the parts thereof. Containing, 1. The Signs of Barrenness. 2. The way of getting a Boy or Girl. 3. Of the likeness of Children to Parents. 4. Of the infusion of the Soul into the Infant. 5. Of Monstrous Births, and the reasons thereof. 6. Of the benefit of Marriage to both Sexes. 7. The prejudice of unequal Matches. 8. The discovery of insufficiency. 9. The cause and cure of the Green-sickness. 10. A Discourse of Maiden-heads. 11. How a Midwife ought to be qualified. 12. Directions and Cautions to Midwifes. 13. Of the Privities. 14. The Fabrick of the Womb. 15. The use and Action of the Genitals. 16. Signs of Conception, and whether of a Male or Female. 17. To discover false Conceptions. 18. Instructions for Women with Child. 19. For preventing Miscarriage. 20. For Women in Child- bed. 21. Of ordering new born Infants, and many other very useful particulars: to which is added a word of Advice to both sexes in the act of Copulation; And the Pictures of several Monsterous Births drawn to the Life. Entered according to order. First or Second Edition. 12mo., [2], 190, [2 (H12, blank)], [12 (monstrous births, the last 2 leaves printed on rectos only)] pp., woodcut frontispiece of a hairy woman and a black child born to white parents (3rd line of text beneath slightly shaved and with the catchword “Jovia-” cropped-off [but this is only relevant for the repeat at the end)], 6 woodcuts of monstrous births at the end (including a repeat of the frontispiece). Initial engraving slightly chipped, torn in the lower gutter margin and trimmed along the lower edge (just touching the caption), very light staining to A9- B8, D1-D2, E6v, E12, G4 and H11, 3mm hole through the blank fore-margin of D4, small (20mm) closed tear to the fore-margin of the final leaf I6 (just missing the text and woodcut), and with a number of the edges and corners lightly bumped, but otherwise a good unsophisticated copy. Contemporary sheep (slightly worn). 10 MAGGS BROS LTD

London: for J. How, and are to be Sold next to the Anchor Tavern in Sweeting Rents in Cornhill, 1684 £7500 Wing A3697fA (British Library [190pp. only; lacks the final sheet with the woodcuts], Guildhall Library [190, [7]pp. only; possibly lacks the blank H12 and/or the last 2 or 3 leaves] & Royal College of Surgeons [190pp. only; lacks the final sheet with the woodcuts]; University of Pennsylvania [lacks the final leaf with one woodcut], U.S. National Library of Medicine [pagination given as [1], 190, [11]pp; so possibly lacks the blank H12 or one leaf of the final sheet] & Yale Medical [lacks pp. 53-68]). Unique complete copy of one of the two earliest surviving editions of one of the most popular medical books ever published. ESTC (but not Wing) notes two editions with different settings of the title-page (in this copy line 11 ends “Sexes”) and records the Pennsylvania copy (which lacks the final leaf) only. In fact the two editions have entirely different settings throughout. The title-pages can further be distinguished by the unbroken setting of “Sweetings Rents” in the imprint of this copy - in the other edition (as seen on EEBO) it is spelt “Swee- / things Rents” (although ESTC does not note the difference in spelling). ESTC records the spelling “Sweethings” Rents or Alley on 16 titles and “Sweetings” on 66. EEBO reproduces only the badly imperfect Yale copy of the other 1684 edition. Aristotle’s master-piece was reprinted in multitudinous editions through the 19th century and even into the early 20th century in both Britain and America and was the standard “sex-manual” for over 200 years. The authorship attributation to Aristotle is entirely false and the result of Aristotle’s early-modern reputation as a “sex expert”. Mary E. Fissell provides a detailed analysis and history of the Master-piece, notes that the text developed in three main versions; this is her Masterpiece I version which derives mainly from two earlier books: Levinus Lemnius’s Secret of Miracles of Nature, 1658 and the anonymous Complete Midwives Practice Enlarged, 1656; and states that “this small book became the best-selling guide to pregnancy and childbirth in the eighteenth century, going into more editions than all other popular works on the topic combined.” Provenance: Ink inscription “Charles Roane His Booke January ye 15 1697” on the verso of the blank leaf H12. Literature: Mary E. Fissell, “Hairy Women and Naked Truths: Gender Knowledge and the Politics of Knowledge in Aristotle’s Masterpiece”, in The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 60, Jan, 2003, pp. 43-74; Roy Porter, “‘The Secrets of Generation Displayed’: Aristotle’s master-piece in Eighteenth-Century England”, in Robert P. MacCubbin, ed., ’Tis Nautre’s Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality during the Enlightenment (1987), pp. 1-21.

WITH A UNIQUE CANCEL TITLE FOR AN EXETER BOOKSELLER [12] [ATKINS (Maurice), attributed to]. Cataplus: or, Aeneas his Descent to Hell. A Mock Poem, In imitation of the Sixth Book of Virgil’s Æneis, in English Burlesque. First Edition. Small 8vo., [2], 88 pp. A number of small discreet repairs and some light staining to the cancel title-page [see below], title-page a little browned, and some light damp-staining to the edges throughout. Mid-20th-century red morocco (small hole in the upper joint). London: for Maurice Atkins, 1672. £1100 Wing A17 (Bodley only in UK; W.A.Clark, Folger, Harvard, Huntington, Illinois, Newberry, Princeton, Yale in USA). Wing A17A (British Library, Exeter Cathedral & Texas) is a reissue with a cancel title with “and are to be sold by William Hinchman, at the King’s Head in Westminstrer Hall” added to the imprint and an additional dedication to Nathaneil Brent signed “M.A.”. This copy preserves an additional unique cancel title at the front with the imprint “London, Printed for Abisha Brocas, Bookseller in Exiter [sic], 1672”. Abisha Brocas was active in Exeter from 1657 to 1675 as a booskeller, stationer, and patent medicine seller. His name appears on fifteen other imprints, all theological, several in conjunction with the London bookseller Richard Royston. Attributed to Atkins on the basis of the dedication to Nathaniel Brent signed in “M.A.” found in some copies of the Hinchman issue (e.g. British Library, but not Texas). Atkins’ “mock poem” bears many of the hallmarks of the earlier Virgilian parody, Scarronides by Charles Cotton (1664). Tanya Caldwell points out that Atkins “followed Cotton most obviously in printing footnotes that supply the Virgilian original. For Atkins, too, the purpose of the notes was to flatter readers by alluding to their assumed knowledge of the venerable classics - and to mock Virgil by contrasting his now foreign language with the poem’s own familiarities” (Caldwell, “Restoration parodies of Virgil and English Literary Values”, Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (2006), p.393. Provenance: JSC’s “Cx” inked on the front pastedown, pencil price “£60-6-0” and pencil note “Rosenbach gave £25-0-0 for a copy of this book”. MAGGS BROS LTD 11

NOT IN WING [13] ATKINSON (James, Teacher of Mathematics.). Epitome of the Whole Art of Navigation. Being an easy Methodical Way to become a Compleat Navigator. Containing Practical Geometry, Plain and Spherical, Superficial and Solid; [...] Trigonometry, Plain and Spherical, both Geometrical, Instrumental, and Logarithmical; with its Uses in Navigation, viz. In Plain, Mercator’s, and Great Circle Sailing. Geography, Astronomy, The Projection of the Sphere, &c. The Description and Use of the Plain-Chart, Mercator’s Chart, both Globes, Hemispheres, and divers other Instruments. A New Form of keeping a Sea-Reckoning, or Account of a Ship’s Way. A Traverse Table; A Table of Meridional Parts; A Table of 100,000 Logarithms, and Logarithmical Sines, Tangents and Secants, carefully corrected. Second Edition? 12mo. xi, [1], 326, 1-32 (Tables useful in Navigation), [1-148 (Table of Logarithms)] pp., 8 (of 10) folding engraved diagram plates (plates 1-6, a fragment of 7, 8, 9 torn and loose, 10 lower third missing and volvelle missing; plates generally a bit tatty, and frayed at the fore-edges). Title-page dusty, edges occasionally ragged and torn throughout, closely shaved along the fore-edge throughout (occasionally touching text), final gathering M detached from the book block and M1 damaged in the inner margin, last page dusty). Contemporary sheep, panelled in blind (very worn, heavily rubbed and bumped, covers scuffed and holed, headcaps torn, marks of two catches/ties?). London: by J.D. for James Atkinson, and R. Mount, 1695 £950 Not in Wing or ESTC. The earliest surviving edition. The title is a cancel on a stub. The subtitle on p.1 is “The Sea-Man’s new Epitome”, under which title it was originally advertised from 1694-98 but no copy is known - see Thomas R. Adams, “The Non-cartographical maritime books published by Mount and Page” (Bibliographical Society, 1985). The final part, A Table of Logarithms has a separate title-page dated 1694 - perhaps a clue to the date of the first issue of this second edition. Earliest surviving edition of one of the standard maritime handbooks reprinted throughout the great age of exploration in the 18th century. The earliest edition listed on ESTC is the “fourth” of 1701 and the latest 1790 - all are rare. Although the introduction states that the first edition appeared in 1686: “It’s not unknown to many of you, that the Sea-Man’s New Epitome was first made publick in the Year 1686. And (as imperfect as then it was) the kind Acceptance it met with, hath excited me to a diligent Reviewing this Second Edition; wherein I have taken great Pains in Correcting the Errors, and Mending the Faults formerly escaped; ... Insomuch that it will appear a New Treatise, thereby rendering the whole (if I mistake not) the most orderly, short and easy Method of Attaining all that’s needful in Practical Navigation, or requisite to make a compleat Mariner.” Provenance: 18th-century signatures “Thas. Gandin” on p.iii and “Geo. Matthew” on p. 1; Early 19th-century ink inscription on the verso of the title: “Sunderland Iron bridge [opened 1796] northumberland Northallerton Norfolk Bradley Salington Guard ?Regent” and on the verso of plate 4 “steal not this book for fear of shame for hear you see the owners name”, a few pen-trials and an illegible name on the verso of plate 7.

[14] AUSTEN (Ralph). A Treatise of Fruit-trees shewing the manner of Grafting, Setting, Pruning, and Ordering of them in all respects: According to divers new and easy rules of experience; gathered in ye space of twenty yeares. Whereby the value of lands may be much improved, in a shorttime, by small cost and little labour. Also discovering some dangerous errors, both in ye Theory and Practice of ye art of Planting Fruit-trees. With the Alimentall and Physicall use of fruits. Togeather with the Spirituall use of an Orchard: Held-forth in divers Similitudes betweene Naturall & Spirituall Fruit-trees: according to Scripture & Experie[n]ce. By RA Austen. Practiser in ye art of Planting. First Edition. Small 4to., [26], 29, 32-97, [1], [12], 41pp., engraved title with an image of an ornamental walled garden. Small worm-trail in the inner margin L4-T4 (partirally repaired M2-R1). Contemporary calf; spine stamped with gilt shelf mark “393” (spine rubbed and scuffed, boards slightly warped, pastedowns unstuck). Oxford: for Tho. Robinson, 1653 £600 Wing A4238 (+;+). Madan, Oxford Books, 2223. Henrey (B.), British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, no.5. The second part, The Spirituall Use of an Orchard; or Garden of Fruit-Trees. Held forth in diverse Similitudes between Naturall and Spirituall Fruit-trees, in their Natures, and Ordering, according to Scripture and Experience has a separate title-page ([N]1, here bound after the engraved title), without imprint or date, and is listed separately in Wing (A4235) & Madan (2224). It is, however, called for in the engraved title. Ralph Austen (c.1612-1676) had a dual career, first as a professional gardener, then as registrar to the Parliamentary Visitors of Oxford (in effect, responsible 12 MAGGS BROS LTD

for monitoring academic standards in the University). He was a correspondent of Samuel Hartlib, whose papers (now in the University of Sheffield) contain a series of letters from Austen giving a blow-by-blow account of the publication of this work. “Like many members of the Hartlib circle, Austen combined a practical and progressive approach to agricultural improvement with a literal and historical reading of the Bible. In this book, he argued that horticulture had been Adam’s original employment in Eden until ‘he was put away from this worke to till the ground, a lower and inferior labour’. Thus he hoped that the husbandman in his orchard would be constantly reminded of Adam’s fall and expulsion from Eden, which would encourage him to use his skills for the good of the commonwealth.” - Bennett & Mandelbrote. According to Anthony à Wood there would have been a greater sale of the Treatise had not Austen insisted on the Spiritual Use being added to it, “which being all divinity and nothing therein of the practical part of gardening, many therefore did refuse to buy it”. Provenance: “Robert Stone his Book / anne Coommbar 1677” and various pen-trials of his name on the front flyleaf and on the last blank page “A mare goeth with hear fole 11 month a cowe goeth with heare calfe 12 mounth a eue goeth with heare lamb 5 month Robert Stone his book”, signature “John Stone” on the front pasteboard, “Thomas Jones his hand and pinn[?] and by that care[?] 1677” and other pen-trials of his name on the rear pasteboard. Old shelf-number “323” tooled in gilt in the centre of the spine. Literature: For a fuller account, see Jim Bennett & Scott Mandelbrote, The Garden, The Ark, the Tower, the Temple, 1998, pp.49-51.

[15] AYRES (Philip). Cupids addresse to the Ladies. Emblemata Amatoria. Emblems of love. Embleme d’amore. Emblemes d’amour. In four languages. Dedicated to the ladies. First Edition. Small 8vo., engraved thoughout with [46] pages of text plus an engraved title-page, a plate depicting “L’Amour aux Dames” opposite the dedicatory verse “Cupid to the ladies” and 44 engraved emblem plates. Without the final blank leaf. Small chip torn from the fore-margin of the title-page, title-page lightly soiled, small unobtrusive waterstaining to the upper blank margin of the first third of the work, short tear at the foot of L1. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with brown morocco label (corners, head and foot of spine repaired). London: sold by R. Bently; S. Tidmarsh, 1683 £3500 Wing A4307 (British Library, Cambridge, Bodley, Leeds, [Kedleston Hall] in U.K.; + in USA). The Emblemata amatoria “was the last of the English emblem books to achieve a popular success” (ODNB). The concept for Ayres’s work came from the Dutch artist Otto van Veen’s Amorum emblemata (1608). About three-quarters of the 44 engraved plates found in Ayres’s text are derived from Van Veen’s work and the remaining engravings are based on those found in another Low-Countries emblem book, the Thronus cupidinis (1618). “It is to be assumed that all the English verses and some of those in French, Latin, and Italian are Ayres’s own compositions. Like Ayres’s Lyrick Poems, this work looks to the modes and achievements of the first half of the seventeenth century. Despite this, the book was clearly popular: there were five English editions over the following thirty years.” (ODNB). This copy includes an original, presumably autograph, 20-line commendatory poem by the poet and playwright Nahum Tate on the blank recto of A2. Addressed “To my Hond. Friend Philip Ayres Esqe. on his book of Emblems in Four Languages”, Tate’s poem does not appear in the standard first- MAGGS BROS LTD 13

line indices or databases or in later editions of this book. In the poem in the present copy, Tate praises Ayres’s linguistic abilities: “Sev’n , to th’ inspired Homer; once laid claim / To thee, four Nations [unintelligible added correction] may do the same; / Whose languages from thee so freely fall;” and notes the skillful construction of the work with engravings and verse that convey his message perfectly: “The Emblem suited to the Sence so fit / As if reflected from the verse you writ”. Tate has also corrected the poem in two places. Nahum Tate (c. 1652-1715) was born in Ireland and after completing his education at Trinity College, Dublin, he moved to London to pursue a literary career. “While much of Tate’s large output is now of only historical interest, some of his couplet verse attains genuine distinction; several of his religious poems still retain their currency after three centuries.” (ODNB). Provenance: Henry Burt, 18th-century signature on the front pastedown. Large bookplate removed.

[16] AYRES (Philip). Lyric Poems, made in Imitation of the Italians. Of which, many are Translations from other Languages. First Edition. 8vo., [16], 167, [9] pp. A single wormhole to the upper right blank corner throughout touching an occasional letter and a small tear to the lower blank margin of D3. Contemporary calf over thin wooden boards [usually characteristic of American bindings], gilt tooled spine, printed waste pastedowns [see below] (lacking label, top half of the front joint split, cords holding, lower corners worn). London: by J. M. for Jos. Knight and F. Saunders, 1687 £1500 Wing A4312 (+;+). Only edition of a remarkable collection of Baroque lyric poetry including the first translation into English of a sonnet by Camoens. Ayres’s Lyric Poems exposed an English audience to the contemporary poetry of , and . Ayres immersed himself in the language and literature of the Iberian peninsula when he was attached to Sir Richard Fanshawe’s embassy to Spain and Portugal as a steward. Ayres’s translation of Camoens’s “The Vanity of Unwarrantable Notions” was the first rendering of any of the Portuguese author’s sonnets into English. The Lyric Poems “includes translations from the ancient Greek lyric poets, Petrarch, Tasso, Camoens, Guarini, de la Vega, Quevedo, Gongora, and Marino, and most of the original verses presented as original compositions are also translations. The collection also contains a Spanish poem by Ayres in which he styles himself ‘Don Felipe Ayres’. The ‘Preface’ confirms the impression that Ayres was trying to fashion himself a baroque poet on the continental model, referring to Fanshawe and Milton (two poets closely involved with Spanish and Italian literature) as his models in English, as well as Spenser and Sidney. The volume also contains poems of friendship to John Dryden and Nahum Tate, as well as a suprisingly extravagant panegyric of James II” (ODNB). This copy has printed waste on the front pastedown of leaf C1 (cropped at the fore-edge) from London’s Flames: being an exact and impartial account of divers informations ... (London, 1679, Wing L2927), a Parliamentary investigation into various suspicious fires in London at the time of the Popish Plot and on the rear pastedown most of the final leaf (A4) of The Impeachment of High Treason exhibited in Parliament, against James, Lord Strange (London, 1642; Wing E2587B). The use of printed waste at this date and of thin wooden boards are both characteristic of late 17th-century American bindings. 14 MAGGS BROS LTD

[17] BACON (Francis). Historia Vitæ et Mortis. 12mo., [2], 3-201 [46]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, covers ruled in gilt (rebacked, new endleaves, old flyleaves preserved). Amsterdam: Joannem Ravesteinium, 1663 £120 Gibson, Bacon, no. 151. The fifth separate edition. Provenance: Inscriptions on the title page. “Guil Rayner Ædis Ch Alumnus. 1683”; William Rayner of London (1664-1730), entered Christ Church 1682 aged 18, B.A. 1686, M.A. 1690. Master of Blundell’s School at Tiverton 1698-1730 and perhaps rector of West Monkton, , 1710-19 and of Wyke Regis, Dorset, 1720-30. Also. “A Rayner Coll. Oriel 1721”; Alexander S. William Rayner of Barnstaple, Devon, matriculated at Christ Church Oxford on May 1716 aged 18, B.A. 1719/20, M.A. Oriel 1722; B. Med 1726/7; D. Med 1731. Signature of W. Leigh on flyleaf.

[18] BACON (Francis). Sermones Fideles, Ethici, Politici, OEconomici: sive interiora rerum. Accedunt faber fortunae colores boni et mali, &c. Second Latin Edition. 12mo., [4], 5-404, [4] pp., engraved allegorical frontispiece. Small rust spot to inner margin of H9, and with some light occasional foxing in places (F1-G1). Contemporary French or Low-Countries calf, ruled in gilt, gilt spine (lightly worn, edges bumped, upper and lower headcaps damaged). Leiden: F. Hackium,1644 £200 Gibson, Bacon, 52. This copy conforms to state ‘a’ as outlined by Gibson. The second Latin edition of Bacon’s Essays. Provenance: Signature on the pastedown “A M J J Dupin” and on the flyleaf opposite “ex dono concivis Dambreville”. Andre Marie Jean Jacques Dupin (1783- 1865) French advocate, president of the Chambre des députés and Legislative Assembly, lawyer.

[19] BACON (Francis). Opera Omnia. Folio. [16], 1324, [29] (numbered in columns). Browned throughout, heavily in many places, due to poor paper quality. Contemporary English calf, covers with floral cornerpieces in blind, (joints split, wear to the head and foot of the spine, edges rubbed). Frankfurt: Impemsis Joannis Baptistae Schonwetteri, typis Matthaei Kempfferi, 1665 £200 Bacon, Gibson, 235. One of two issues with variant titles printed in 1665.

[20] BACON (Roger) The Cure of Old Age and Preservation of Youth by Roger Bacon, a Franciscan Frier. Translated out of Latin; with Annotations, and an Account of his Life and Writings. By Richard Browne, M.L. Coll. Med. Lond. Also a Physical Account of the Tree of Life by Edw. Madeira Arrais. Translated likewise out of Latin by the same hand. First Edition in English. 8vo. [40], 156, [6], 108, [8 (contents)]. Early 19th-century half russia, drab boards, gilt edges, ribbon marker (joints cracked). London: for Tho. Flesher, and Edward Evets, 1683 £300 Wing B372. (+;+). Provenance: Bookplate of George Field (1777-1854), chemist, see ODNB, with occasional pencil notes. JSC bookplate.

[21] BAKER (Thomas). The Geometrical Key: or the Gate of Equations unlock’d: A New discovery of the Construction of all Equations, howsoever affected, not exceeding the fourth Degree; viz. of, Linears, Quadratics, Cubics, Biquadrants; and the finding of all their Roots, as well false, as true; [...] Fortified with Demonstrations, Illustrated with Figures, to each Equation; MAGGS BROS LTD 15 and Exemplified with numeral Equations (according to all the varieties of cases,) adapted to each Figure. For the use of Young Mathematicians, a work hitherto desired. First Edition. Small 4to., [36], 7 (“Catalogue of the Mathematical Works of the Learned Mr. Baker”), 167, 167, [3 (advertisements)] pp., text in Latin and English on opposite pages with duplicate numeration causing some overlaps; first leaf with half-title on recto and Latin title on verso opposite the English title; folding letterpress table (“Synopsis”), errata and 10 leaves of folding engraved diagrams. Very occasional light spotting, paper flaw in blank corner of K2, a number of leaves uncut at the tail, minor damp staining to the lower fore-corner of the folded plates. Mid-18th-century polished calf; gilt spine (joints split but held by cords, boards a little scuffed, label half-missing, lower corners bumped). London: by J. Playford, for R. Clavel, 1684 £400 Wing B517 (+;+). The 7-page Catalogue of the Mathematical Works of the Learned Mr. Baker, said to have been composed by the mathematician John Collins is, in fact, the proposal for publication of a volume of Baker’s works, including The Geometrical Key, with the authority of the Royal Society who would undertake to purchase 60 copies; it is also listed separately as Wing B516A. Baker (1623-89) was educated at Oxford and became minister, and later vicar, of Bishop’s Nympton, Devon. His private passion though was mathematics and in 1682 the Royal Society discussed and approved publication of The Geometrical Key, although it did not appear in print until 1684. The work is a “polyglot [sic for diglot] Latin and English work which attempted to do without arithmetic in the solution of equations by means of construction” (ODNB) although as the text consists almost entirely of mathematical equations the necessity for it to be in Latin and English is unclear.

A WATERY PILGRIM’S PROGRESS IN VERSE [21] BALMFORD (William). The Seaman’s Spiritual Companion: or Navigation Spirituallized. Being a New Compass for Sea Men. Consisting of Thirty-Two Points: Directing every Christian how to Stear the Course of his Life, through all Storms and Tempests; Fir to be Read, and seriosuly Perused by all such as desire their Eternal Welfare. Published for a general Good; but more especially for those that are exposed to the Danger of the Seas. ... To which is prefixt. a Preface by Benj. Keach, the Author of War with the Devil. First Edition. Small 8vo., [16], 143, [1] pp. Variant state of the title with a double rule border and price on title page. A2 shaved at the foot affecting the signature and catchword on the recto, minor worming to the upper outer corner of D4-K8 (affecting the end of the text in places), stain to B3-E2 affecting three lines, occasional foxing throughout, small hole from a paper flaw in the lower margin of E2, short tear at the foot of F3 slightly affecting the last line on the recto and the catchword on the verso, small hole from a paper flaw in the centre of I2 touching two lines, but actually a reasonable and much-loved copy. Contemporary sheep (rubbed, covers scuffed, fore-edge of lower cover worn exposing the board, corners worn). London: for Benj. Harris,1678 £2800 Wing B609 (British Library, Dr Williams’s Library & Regent’s Park College Oxford; Yale only in USA). Only edition of a spiritual guide for sailors, all in verse, showing how a Christian is like a “ship at sea”, a sort of watery Pilgrim’s Progress, with an introductory poem by the controversial Baptist minister Benjamin Keach, and another by an anonymous gentlewoman. Balmford requests in his dedicatory epistle to the “ingenious society of seamen” - that the reader devote “one quarter of an hour” each day to “think of God [...] and seriously to ponder of thy death” (A2r). He goes on to explain that seamen, of all men, are “most uncertain of their lives” (A3v), hence the need for a spiritual guide addressed directly to them. The poem teaches “spiritual navigation” and takes the form of a long poetic “journey” following the points of the compass. Balmford takes his lead from Psalm 107 with its repeated imagery of “brittle barks” and the “dangerous deep” contrasted with the “pleasant springs of waters cleare” in Heaven. Provenance: Several pen-trials, scribbles and ownership inscriptions on the endleaves: “John Allab[on] His Booke October ye 24th 16[-] O Mortall all beware / God Knows all things that are. / Quick sighted myne owne faultes to [see] / Rather then others will I [be]”; “Charles Canning his Book 1679”, “James Purnell His Booke Anno Domini” (deleted); “Thomas Nicholas His Book May ye 10 1718”, “As Nero once wth harpe in hand survey’d / his flaming Roome as it burnt he play’d. / So our great prince when the Dutch fleet arrived, / and burnt our ships, still as they burnt he swived, / but against fate all humane art in Vaine, / his swiving Link prov’d useless as his Chaine.” (a crude attack on the potency of Charles II; not in the main poetry indices or databases); “John Croome”; “James Croome”; “James Allabon”; “Jane Hanley”; “James Croome His Book March ye 9th 1757 Steal not ye Book I pray & if you do please let me have it aga[in]”. It is tempting to imagine that they were all suitably spiritual sailors, except perhaps the writer of the rude verse on Charles II. 16 MAGGS BROS LTD

[23] BANKS (John). The Destruction of Troy, a Tragedy, Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke’s Theatre. First Edition. Small 4to., [8], 75, [1] pp. Lightly damp stained throughout, shaved close at the head with occasional cropping of headlines, light ink staining to the recto of the final and verso of the penultimate leaves, holes from early stitching to the gutter throughout. 19th-century half morocco and marbled boards. London: by A.G. and J.P., and are to be sold by Charles Blount, 1679 £150 Wing B657 (+;+). “Although Banks’s early heroic plays were soon forgotten, his historical tragedies [of which this is one], with their protracted scenes of sadness and distress, proved influential” (ODNB)

[24] [BAYLY (Thomas)]. Witty Apophthegms delivered at several times, and upon several occasions by King James, King Charls [sic], the Marquess of Worcester, Francis Lord Bacon, and Sir Thomas Moor. Collected and Revised. Second Edition. 12mo., [8], 168 pp., engraved frontispiece depicting the five men. Browned throughout, staining to C2 and C6, closed tear to fore-margin of D12, and with a small piece missing from the corner of B6 and the blank fore-margin of F3. Contemporary sheep, ruled in blind, with gilt lettered spine (rubbed, corners bumped). London: printed by W[illiam]. R[awlins]. for Matthew Smelt, 1669 £550 Wing W3237 (+; Huntington [2 copies, 1 ex Foundation], Dalhousie University, University of Pennsylvania & Yale in North America). A collection of the sayings and anecdotes of five of the most important men in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. ESTC attributes the first edition (1658) of this collection to the clergyman and controversialist Thomas Bayly, although the evidence to support this seems to be scant, apart from the recurrent appearance of a ‘Dr. Baily’ in many of the stories. Nevertheless this compendium provides numerous gossipy pieces of information from the reign of two Kings and the careers of three important courtiers. The apophthegms of King James are usually concerned with religion with particular emphasis on the abuses of the ‘Popish Religion’. the section on King Charles features a short re-telling of the clandestine marriage of John Donne to the much younger Ann More (26). The majority of Charles’s sayings deal with war, including the optimistic maxim that “the devil of rebellion doth commonly turn himself into an Angel of ” (24). More’s selection features the poignant reference to his imprisonment stating that “to ease his thoughts when he was in prison, he imagined that all the world was but a prison, out of which every day some one or other was called to execution” (162).

[25] BEAUMONT (Francis) & FLETCHER (John). Comedies and Tragedies written by Francis Beaumont and Iohn Fletcher Gentlemen. Never printed before, And now published by the Authours Originall Copies. First Edition. Small Folio. [26]ff, 75, [1], 143, [1], 81, 102-165, [3], 71, [1], 172, 92, 52, 28, 25-46 [of 48] pp. lacking the final leaf of text, engraved portrait of Fletcher by William Marshall with verses beneath by John Berkenhead, second state with “Vates Duplex” in the fourth line of the inscription and “J. Berkenhead” in smaller letters (backed with old paper, at the time of rebinding, slightly cropped at the foot; ink blot in the inscription). Title-page stained and slightly dusty, loose at the upper inner margin, margins a bit frayed, small hole in a blank area near the outer edge, lower outer corner of F3 torn away with loss to five lines, a few words on 7 lines on Dd1v have adhered to the blank page opposite, upper corner of 3U4 torn-away affecting the pagination, loss at the foot of 7A1 from a paper flaw (affecting a few letters), closed vertical tear at the head of K1, Oo4, foot of Hh4, Mm1, Rr4, 3R1, 5M2, 8C4, closed tears from a paper flaw in 8C4, minor spots and stains throughout, some ink blots, upper inner margin of the first few leaves and lower outer corner of the last few leaves dampstained. Late 17th/early 18th-century sheep, covers ruled in blind (headcaps and top and bottom of spine torn away, covers somewhat scuffed, cup-ring on the lower cover, upper corner of the lower cover chewed and dampstained). London: for Humphrey Robinson, and Humphrey Moseley, 1647 £600 Wing B1581 (+,+). Pforzheimer 53 This edition of Beaumont & Fletcher’s previously unpublished plays is said to have been edited by the poet James Shirley. It is dedicated to Philip, Earl of Pembroke, and the publishers remind Lord Pembroke that the works “of the then expired Sweet Swan of Avon Shakespeare” were also dedicated to him. The MAGGS BROS LTD 17

complexity of the collation is due to the division of the printing among eight printers. It contains all the hitherto unpublished plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, except the Wild-Goose Chase, the manuscript of which “hath beene long lost, and I feare irrecoverable; for a Person of quality borrowed it from the Actours many yeares since, and (by the negligence of a Servant) it was never return’d”. In fact it was recovered soon after and printed in 1652. Provenance: 1: Name “Elizabeth” [probably Elizabeth Harbin, see below] in ink on the verso of the title and on 6c4V, 7E4v (shaved, so predates the binding); pencil signature “Edward [-]” on b2r. Each play in the first third of the volume has a brief critical ink note beside the title, e.g. “Indiferent”, “Soe; Soe”, “Excellent”, “meane”, “rare sport”, “many worse”, “pretty sport”. 2: Wyndham Harbin (c.1685-1740), 2nd son of William and Elizabeth Harbin, of Newton Surmaville, Somerset, with his signature on the flyleaf. Many books remained at Newton Surmaville until the house sale by Lawrence’s on 8/10/2007 but the present volume was sold, with many others, in the 1960s.

[26] BEAUMONT (John). The Present State of the Universe, or an Account of I. The Rise, Births, Names, Matches, Children, and near Allies of all the present Chief Princes of the World. II. Their Coats of Arms, Motto’s, Devises, Liveries, Religions, and Languages. III. The Names of their Chief Towns, with some Computation of the Houses and Inhabitants. Their Chief Seats of Pleasure, and other Remarkable things in their . IV. Their Revenues. To which are added some other Curious Remarks; as also an Account of Common-Wealths, relating to the foregoing Heads. First Edition, second issue. Small 4to., [6 (1st leaf advertisements)], 100 pp. Browned, dampstained and with some worming (particularly severe near the centre) in the inner margin, edges dusty. Uncut, stitched as issued. London: for William Whitwood, 1696 £380 Wing B1623A (Library of Congress only). A reissue of the first edition of 1694 (Wing B1623 +,+) with a new title-page and additional advertisement leaf. Expanded editions were published in 1697, 1701 and 1704. Beaumont explains in the dedication to Charles Cottingham that this guide to the various countries of the world is designed for the use of “hopeful offspring” ([A3]v). He begins by describing the “illustrious House of ” due to it having the “largest extent of Dominions among the European Princes” (B1r). The entries tend to be formulaic for each but still provide a wealth of information about countries as varied as Spain, Italy, Switzerland and, going further afield, and Japan. The British Library’s copy of the first issue was presented by Beaumont to Robert Hooke. Provenance: Maggs catalogue note tipped onto the inside of the front cover with a price of £8 and an old Maggs cost code pencilled on the verso of the final leaf.

[27] BEHN (Aphra), editor. Miscellany, being a Collection of Poems by Several Hands. Together with Reflections on Morality, or Seneca Unmasqued. First Edition. 8vo, [14 (of 16, without the blank leaf a4], 299, [15], 301-382 pp. Corner of Y4 torn away with loss of the catchword and two or three letters of text, blank corner of D8 torn away (no loss of text), light dampstain to the lower right corner of the last half of the work, some light soiling throughout. Later calf (rebacked, new endleaves). London: for J. Hindmarsh, 1685. £1800 Wing M2230 (+;+). Only edition of a poetical miscellany edited by Aphra Behn that includes poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, his friend George Etherege, Thomas Creech, and Henry Crisp, among others as well as a number of translations and original works by Behn. The Miscellany includes Behn’s strikingly original translation of La Rochefoucauld’s Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales. Behn translated 395 maxims from the fourth edition of the French text under the title Seneca unmasqued. Provenance: “J.W.”, contemporary initials to title-page.

“THE FIRST ENGLISH PLAY TO BE SET IN THE AMERICAN ” [28] BEHN (Aphra). The Widdow Ranter or, the History of Bacon in . A Tragi-Comedy, acted by their Majesties Servants. First Edition. Small 4to., [8], 56 pp. Title-page lightly soiled, light dampstain to the blank fore-margins throughout, the odd page number just touched by the binder. Late 19th-century brown morocco by Pratt, gilt edges (joints and corners chipped, fore-edge of front cover slightly bowed). 18 MAGGS BROS LTD

London: Printed for James Knapton, 1690 £4500 Wing B1774 (+,+). A good copy of Aphra Behn’s final play - a dramatisation of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia. “‘None but those of the meanest quality and corruptest lives go there [to Virginia].” Wrote William Berkeley, governnor of Virginia, in 1663. When even Virginia’s governor, a man concerned with promoting the ’s growth and welfare, admitted as much, it is no surprise that accounts of Virginia society on both sides of the Atlantic painted it as base, corrupt - the very inversion of proper order. One such depiction is found in Aphra Behn’s play The Widow Ranter, which recounted the story of Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. First performed in 1689 and published a year later ... the play boasts a rollicking cast of characters - most famously the Widow Ranter herself. She and others, including a former convict or two, are aptly described as ‘low’. These characters’ rise to positions of power and influence is crucial to the comedy of the play and has led some to think Behn intended it as an affirmation of Creole society in the New World, where those on the bottom of the social hierarchy could quickly rise to the top ... Behn may have found aspects of colonial Virginian society appealing, but in her dramatic account of Bacon’s rebellion, as in the historical accounts, traditional order and hierarchy are affirmed and upheld, a clear demonstration of the continuity of English royalist culture on both sides of the Atlantic ... While Behn’s reputation has enjoyed a remarkable revival in the last 25 years, largely on her novel Oroonoko and her play The Rover, The Widow Ranter has remained comparatively obscure. The play is well worth studying, not only because it is one of Behn’s more neglected works but because it offers telling insights into the Atlantic world as a realm of shared culture, economy, polity and society” (Pulsipher, 42). The Widdow Ranter is very rare commercially - no copies appear on ABPC-online and there was no copy in the otherwise comprehensive collection of Behn plays in Maggs Catalogue 1022, The English Theatre (1981). Provenance: 1: J.W. Bouton, inkstamp, “J.W. Bouton, Bookseller, N.Y.” to front flyleaf. Bouton was one of the leading American antiquarian book dealers and publishers of the late 19th century. Literature: Jenny Hale Pulsipher, “‘The Widow Ranter’ and Royalist Culture in Colonial Virginia”, Early American Literature, vol. 39, no. 1 (2004), pp. 41-66.

[29] BEVERIDGE (William). De Linguarum Orientalium, prasertim Hebraicae, Syricae, Chaldaicae, Arabicae, & Samaritane, Praestantia, Necessitate & Utilitate quam & Theologis praestant & Philosophis. Per G.B. First Edition, second issue. 8vo., [5], 38 pp. Show-through of print on B2-6. Contemporary mottled calf, panelled in blind (joints split, lower cover almost detached, rubbed, spine label missing). London: Thomas Roycroft, 1664 £220 Wing B2092A (+ in UK; Toronto only in North America). Reissue of the first edition of 1658 (Wing B2092, +,+) with a cancel title. [Issued with:] BEVERIDGE (William). [Syriac] id est, Grammatica linguae Domini nostri Jesu Christi, sive Grammatica Syriaca Tribus Libris tradita [...] First Edition, second issue. [9], 144 pp., printed in reverse in the Arabic style. Dampstain along the lower edge of D7. London: Thomas Roycroft for Humphrey Robinson, 1664. Wing B2094 (+ in UK; Harvard & Toronto in North America). Reissue of the first edition of 1658 (Wing B2093, +,+) with a cancel title (which does not have the combined errata for the two works on the verso). This “ambitious” Oriental language manual is the product of Beveridge’s personal interest in the subject (ODNB). Grammatica Syriaca is notable for its extensive use of Syriac type.

SAMUEL BOWNAS’S BIBLE TAKEN TO THE COLONIES AND BACK WITH A MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT OF HIS JOURNEY [30] BIBLE. The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the original Tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised: by his Majesties [ESTC adds “speciall”] Command. 12mo. Unpaginated. Collation: A-2K12 [without the Apocrypha 2L-2Z12], title within woodcut architectural frame. Some sidenotes shaved, some stains (one extends in the outer edge and margin from T-Z). Contemporary blind panelled calf (lower joint repaired, headbands missing, heavily worn, staples for two leather clasps on the front cover, catches torn away damaging the lower cover, especially at the top corner where an area of leather is missing). London: Printed by the Companie of Stationers, 1647 £5000 Wing B2216. [Bound with]: DOWNAME (John). A Brief Concordance, or table to the Bible of the last translation. [120]pp. London: by W. Du-Gard for N. Bourn, 1652. This edition not in Wing or ESTC - collates A-K6. MAGGS BROS LTD 19

Provenance: Samuel Bownas (1677-1753), Quaker minister and writer. Signatures on the front pastedown “Samuel Bownas Book - 1703” and inscription “I Lodged att Thos: Whitehouses 21 nights in Dover/ I Lodged at Henery Dows house 18 nights in Bathurst in ” and a pencil sketch of a fish on the front flyleaf and a letterpress book-label reading “Samuel Bownas His BOOK, 1703” on the rear pastedown. Inscription by Bownas on the rear flyleaves recording his voyage to America: “I left my house ye 22nd Xbris [October] 1726. Landed in Verginia ye 14 2nd. mo 1727. Travelled through all ye following North Carolina, Verginia, MaryLand, East and Western shoars. Pensilevainia East and West Jerseys Longe Island Connetecoate Road Island Boston and Plymouth Govermt. ye all which I travelled beeing ruidy to saile ye 15 of ye 5th. mo. 1728 and in that time I travelled 5022 as pr account in my Journall setting saile the 29 - 5th mo from Hamption and Was”, it ends abruptly and another page may be missing; three other leaves of notes at the end are torn out “While in America, Bownas was particularly engaged with challenging the preaching of the renegade Quaker George Keith, who had taken Anglican orders. Keith had Bownas prosecuted for preaching and thrown into gaol on Long Island, where he was held for nearly a year. Samuel learned to make shoes in order to earn a living and received visits from, among others, an ‘Indian king’ together with ‘three of his chief Men’ (Bownas, Account, 79). After his release in 1703 Samuel travelled in New England in the ministry before returning home at the end of 1706.” - ODNB. He returned to America in 1726. An account of the life, travels, and Christian experiences in the work of the ministry of Samuel Bownas based on his journals appeared in 1756. 20 MAGGS BROS LTD

[31] BLACKMORE (Richard). King Arthur. An Heroick Poem. In Twelve Books. By Richard Blackmore, M.D. Fellow of the College of Physicians in London, and one of His Majesty’s Physicians in Ordinary. To which is annexed, an index, explaining the names of countrys, citys, and rivers, &c. Third Edition. 4to., [2], xvii, [1], 343, [9] pp. Small hole close to the inner margin of A2, large piece torn away from the blank margin of Nn2, otherwise a very clean copy. Contemporary speckled calf; spine divided into six panels, tooled in gilt and with a red morocco label in the second (joints split - upper board held by one cord - covers a little scuffed). London: for Awnsham and John Churchil at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, and Jacob Tonson at the Judges Head in Fleet- street, 1697 £300 Wing B3077 (+;+). The issue that does not have “near the Inner-Temple-gate” in the imprint. Wing does not differentiate between the two different imprint settings, however ESTC states that this setting is by far the scarcer of the two (No copies in the UK; Folger and University of Tennessee in the USA). “A transparent political allegory, with the pious Arthur representing William III and his ungodly antagonist symbolizing James II” (ODNB). Provenance: An early signature has been effaced from the front pastedown leaving only the date 1758.

[32] BLOUNT (Sir Thomas ). De Re Poetica: or, Remarks upon Poetry with characters and of the Most Considerable Poets, whether Ancient or Modern. Extracted out of the Best and Choicest Criticks. First Edition. Small 4to., [12], 129, [3], 248 pp. Occasional spotting and browning (G4, Y1) and with a small marginal tear to L1. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, spine with late 18th-century elaborate gilt tooling and with armorial crest of Bunbury in the top panel (joints and corners rubbed). London: for Ric[hard] Everingham, 1694 £220 Wing B3347 (+;+) Only edition of a valuable collection of literary criticism covering a wide period, from Aeschylus to Blount’s near-contemporaries, e.g. Jonson, Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Suckling, etc. The work includes a number of celebrated poets omitted from Blount’s Censura Celebriorum Authorum, 1690. Provenance: Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Baronet (1778-1860), army officer and politician, bookplate to front pastedown and gilt crest (two swords saltireways passing through the mouth of a leopard’s face) at the head of the spine. Bunbury, the 2nd son of the caricaturist Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811) had a fine library and art collection at his Suffolk home of Barton Hall, dispersed in various sales at Sotheby’s 1894, 1896, 1916 & 1932.

[33] BLOUNT (Sir Thomas Pope). Essays on Several Subjects. First Edition. 8vo., [6], 179, [1] pp., lacking A4, blank. Intermittently foxed throughout (more pronounced in gatherings M and N). Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners repaired). London: for Richard Bentley, 1691 £300 Wing B3348 (+;+). A collection of seven essays written in his “idle hours” on subjects as diverse as religion, education, classical antiquity and passion.

[34] [BONNEFONS (Nicolas de)]. EVELYN (John), translator. The French Gardiner; instructing how to cultivate all sorts of Fruit-Trees & Herbs for the Garden. Together with Directions to Dry and Conserve them in their Natural. Written originally in French, and now Translated into English, by John Evelyn, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. The Fourth Edition, illustrated with Sculptures. Whereunto is annexed, the English Vineyard Vindicated; by J. Rose, now Gardiner to His Majesty: With a Tract of the Making and ordering of Wines in . “Fourth” [i.e. Fifth] Edition.12mo. [vi], 215, [viii], 24, [8] pp., engraved frontispiece and four engraved plates (one folding, of pruned vines). Browned throughout (except the plates which are on different paper); slight worming in the lower margin at the front. Mid-20th-century buckram. London: by T.B. for B. Took, and are to be sold by J. Taylor,1691 £750 MAGGS BROS LTD 21

Wing B3603 (+ in UK; W.A. Clark, Folger, Harvard, Huntington in USA. Keynes, Evelyn, 11. First published in English in 1658. The second part (with a separate title) is The English Vineyard, vindicated (16pp.) addressed to Charles II by John Rose, the royal gardener at St. James’s but it “appears to have been really written by Evelyn, although the matter was derived from the lips of the King’s Gard’ner, John Rose” (Keynes, p. 178. It is followed by a letter from John Evelyn to Rose on the making and purifying of wine (8pp.). It was first published separately in 1666. provenance: Isaac Borrow (1673-1745), of Holland [Hulland], Derbyshire, with armorial bookplate dated 1703 on the verso of the title.

[35] BOYLE (Robert). Certain Physiological Essays and other Tracts; Written at distant Times, and on several Occasions. The Second Edition. Wherein some of the Tracts are enlarged by Experiments, and the Work is increased by the Addition of a Discourse about the Absolute Rest in Bodies. Second Edition. 4to., [8], 292; [4], 30 pp., without the final blank leaf. Small worm-hole through the upper blank margin throughout, long worm-trail in the inner margin and into the text around line 14 of of Pp1-[3]E2; leaf B1 dusty at the head, small piece torn away from the blank corner of T2 and with a tear to the foot of O3. Contemporary sprinkled calf, covers panelled in blind, paper label in the second panel of the spine (covers affected by worm damaged - in particular they have chewed out the corner ornaments of the panels). London: Henry Herringman, 1669 £950 Wing B3930 (+;+). Fulton Boyle, no. 26. Described by Michael Hunter as “perhaps the most significant of all Boyle’s writings from this period - indeed, one of the most seminal of his entire career ... laying out a new style of natural philosophy accompanied by some telling examples.” (Hunter, Boyle: between God and Science, 2009, p. 112). “This collection comprised a series of essays presenting a very subtle view of experiments and their rationale, and illustrating the way in which they could be deployed to provide an empirical foundation for Boyle’s version of the mechanical philosophy, in which natural changes and sensory effects could be attributed to interactions between minute bodies that he called corpuscles” (ODNB). Provenance: 1: George Sampson, early inscription on the flyleaf “E libris Georgi Sampson” and signature on the title beside a deleted signature “Phil H[...] prt. Vs.”. 2: W. Hawker, 18th-century signature on the flyleaf.

[36] BOYLE (Robert). Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature, of Effluviums. To which are annext New Experiments to make Fire and Flame Ponderable: together with a Discovery of the Perviousness of Glass. First Edition, first issue. 8vo., [8], 69, [1 (blank); [2 (subtitle),] 47, [1 (blank)]; 74, [10]; 85, [1 (blank)], [6 (printer to the reader & catalogue of the writings) pp. Lightly browned in places, mostly in the margins, rust-mark at head of E1-3. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, marbled edges (rebacked, new endpapers). London: by W[illiam]. G[odbid]. for M. Pitt, 1673 £1200 Wing B3951 (+;+). Fulton, Boyle, no. 105. Reissued in the same year with a cancel title and again with Boyle’s Essay, about the Origine and Virtue of Gems and The Prodromus to a Dissertation concerning Solids of Nicholas Steno added - the latter issue being very rare. “Boyle had long been intrigued by the idea that, although the particles into which matter could be divided were so tiny that they were barely perceptible, they nevertheless remained highly potent. He also argued that effluvia retained the properties of the bodies from which they came and that many phenomena could be explained in terms of the efficaciousness of such exhalations - for instance in causing an illness or in making possible its cure.” - Michael Hunter, Boyle: between God and Science (2009), p. 174. 22 MAGGS BROS LTD

JOHN EVELYN’S COPY [37] BOYLE (Robert). The Excellency of Theology, Compar’d with Natural Philosophy, (as both are objects of men’s study.) Discours’d of in a Letter to a Friend. By T. H. R. B. E. Fellow of the Royal Society. To which are annex’d some occasional thoughts about the excellency and grounds of the mechanical hypothesis. 8vo., [30], 232, [2]; [4], 40, [3] pp., with the final blank, five-line errata (Q8) and cancelled title-page in the second part. The title-page is badly defective having been affected by damp and stuck to the front pasteboard (where some of it still remains) and has a large (145 x 35mm) piece torn away and two (approx 50mm) closed tears caused by the leaf being torn away from the pastedown, first sheet dampstained (continuing less severely in places throughout), final blank and binders blank a little ragged and stained by the turn-ins. Contemporary sheep (large piece torn away from the leather exposing the book block, covers almost detached, holes and scuffs to both boards, no pastedowns). Late 20th-century brown cloth folding box. London: by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1674 £550 Wing B3955 (+;+) Fulton Boyle, 116. Written by Boyle in 1665 when he had been forced to leave London on account of the plague. Michael Hunter (Boyle: between God and Science, 2009, p. 148), explains that “Its thrust was to expound the significance of theological knowledge, and hence the importance of acquiring it, as a means of learning both about God and about many aspects of the world that He had created, some of which were far beyond the remit of natural philosophy” he goes on though to counter that “Boyle’s motives in writing Excellency are a little unclear [...] a sense of demarcation is in evidence in Boyle’s apology for the fact that he, as a layman, should be writing on such subjects at all [...] it may also reflect the hostility to new science which was to be found in some quarters at this point.” (148). Provenance: John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer. His duplicate copy, with “The Honble Robt Boyle Esq” written above Boyle’s initials on the title and two ink notes on the rear pasteboard “52: mechanical philosophy”, the other illegible, and a phrase in the preface marked in the margin. Evelyn’s presentation copy from Boyle was in the Christie’s Evelyn Library sale, 23/6/1977, lot 235, £1300 to Quaritch and is now in the British Library. Evelyn’s letter of 20 June 1674 thanking Boyle for the gift of this “Inestimable Treasure” is published in Boyle’s Correspondence, 4, p. 383.

[38] BOYLE (Robert). Experiments, Notes, &c. about the Mechanical Origine or Production of divers particular Qualities: among which is inserted a Discourse of the Imperfection of the Chymist’s Doctrine of Qualities; together with some Reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alcali and Acidium. First Edition. 8vo., [6 (of 8, without the leaf of “Directions to the Binder” and errata)], (1), (6)-(21), [1 (blank)], [2 (subtitle)], 1-28, [2 (blank)], 29-105, [1 (blank)], 35, [1 (blank)], 31, [1 (blank)], 50, [2 (blank)], 38, [2 (blank), [2 (subtitle)], 7, [1 (blank)], 3-56, 34, [2 (blank)], [2 (subtitle)], 69, [1(blank)], [6 (inc. subtitle)], 46, [4 (inc. subtitle)], 20, [2 (subtitle)], 38 pp., each tract has a separate title-page. General title dusty, light browning, stronger in the margins, throughout, small chip at the head of the title. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind (rebacked, new endleaves). London: by E. Flesher, for R. Davis bookseller in Oxford, 1675 £1100 Wing B3976 (+;+). Fulton Boyle no. 123 “Rare and often imperfect”. Reissued in 1676 with a cancel title. “Like Boyle’s other natural philosophical works of these years, Mechanical Qualities takes the form of a series of separate tracts, each with its own title-page and pagination. It is also similar to the Tracts volumes in including two rather disparate pieces, ‘Of the Imperfection of the Chymist’s Doctrine of Qualities’ - a further apologetic work, probably of earlier date, which recapitulated some of the arguments of The Sceptical Chymist in a rather more approachable manner - and ‘Reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alcali and Acidum’. The latter was an important and original work in which, building on his findings in his Experiments and Considerations touching Colours (1664), Boyle set out his reservations about the growing tendency among physicians (but also among some chemists), to explain everything in terms of a simple polarization between alkaline and acidic substances. “The remainder of the volume, however, contained a series of experimental examinations of various ‘qualities’ arguing that each could best be explained by mechanical principles; they were prefaced by an important set of ‘Advertisements relating to the Following Treatise’ which set out the rationale of its findings as a whole. After an essay on heat and cold, Boyle moved on to tastes and odours before dealing with volatility, ‘fixedness’, corrosiveness, chemical precipitation, magnetism and electricity; this last has been acclaimed as ‘the first work on electricity in the English language’.” - Michael Hunter, Boyle: Between God and Science (2009), pp. 177-78. Provenance: “Thos. Smith”, contemporary signature at the foot of the title-page; and with a few marginal ink notes, some with chemical signs. Three recipes written on a contemporary flyleaf preserved at the end, “... to Horse at 4 times sucesively then Bleed them & rest one day”, “... spirit mixt & dress the Horses”, “...6 penniworth made into Balls as big as a wash Ball”. MAGGS BROS LTD 23

[39] BOYLE (Robert). Hydrostatical Paradoxes, made out by New Experiments, (for the most part Physical and Easie.) By the Honourable , Fellow of the Royal Society. First Edition. 8vo., [32 of 36], 247, [1]., with all three folding engraved plates (with 24 figures of scientific instruments) but lacking the contents and leaves (b1-b2). Some very light damp staining to the edges throughout. Late 19th- century tree calf (rebacked, later endleaves). Oxford: by William Hall for Richard Davis, 1666 £600 Wing B3985 (+;+). Fulton, Robert Boyle, 72. The imprimatur and/or contents leaves are lacking in a number of copies (e.g. the Macclesfield copy sold in 2004 lacked the imprimatur leaf). This book stemmed from Boyle’s reading of a work by Blaise Pascal, Traitéz de l’equibre des liqueurs et de la pesanteur de la masse de l’air on the equilibrium of liquids. Hydrostatical Paradoxes, delayed by the Great Plague in London, “forms a kind of sequel to Spring of the Air (indeed, Pascal’s book had also dealt with pneumatic phenomena, as its title reveals); but although Boyle notes that he might have published it as part of an appendix to that work, it formed a self-contained whole, dealing with atmospheric pressure with particular reference to liquid masses. It was also a manifesto for the experimental method which Boyle and the Royal Society had now come to champion.” - Michael Hunter, Boyle: between God and Science, p.147.

[40] BOYLE (Robert). Medicinal Experiments; or, a collection of Choice Remedies, for the most part Simple, and Easily Prepared. [The latter Five Decads being a Second Part. - A Catalogue of the Philosophical Books and Tracts, written by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; ... To which is added a Catalogue of the Theological Books, written by the same Author.] First Edition. 12mo., [12], 11, [1], 88, [2], 17, [1] pp. Very lightly foxed throughout. Contemporary sheep (worn, edges rubbed and bumped; text-block split down the centre and loose in the case). London: for Sam. Smith, 1692 £500 Wing B3989 (+;+). Fulton, Boyle, 179 Extracted from Boyle’s extensive (and lost) collection of manuscript medical and chemical recipes “that being Parable or Cheap, may easily be made serviceable to poor Countrey People”. A second volume was published in 1693 and a third in 1694. “Only in 1692, the year after Boyle’s death, did the first volume of his recipe collection actually appear, entitled Medicinal Experiments. But the publisher’s advertisement made it clear that the ‘major part’ had been printed before his death, thus providing a mandate for two further volumes produced by John Locke and by others over the next two years.” - Michael Hunter, Boyle: between God and Science (2009), p. 235. “There are numerous statements in this astonishing collection of nostrums which might well shatter one’s confidence in Boyle’s judgement, but in charity it is perhaps better to look upon them as a commentary on the state of medicine in the seventeenth century rather than the indictment of a high-minded seeker after truth.” Fulton, Boyle p.118.

[41] BOYLE (Robert). New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, or an Experimental History of Cold, begun. To which are added an Examen of Antiperistasis, and an Examen of Mr. Hobs’s Doctrine about Cold. Whereunto is annexed An Account of Freezing, brought in to the Royal Society, by the learned Dr. C. Merret, a Fellow of it. First Edition. 8vo., [60 + 8 (sheet aa4 misbound in the preliminaries instead of after Hhh8] , 803, [1 (blank)], [3 (advertisement)], [1 (blank)], 805-845, [3 (catalogue of writings)], [1 (blank)], 54 pp, without the final blank leaf, two folding plates (thermometers & an Italian ice-house) bound at the end. Tightly bound, text-block starting to split in places, title a little stained, very small piece torn away from the blank corner of d4. Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners worn, 19th-century endleaves, old front flyleaf (stained) preserved). London: for John Crook, 1665 £3500 Wing B3996 (+;+). Fulton, Boyle, no. 70. “In Cold Boyle dealt with a topic which had hitherto been almost wholly neglected, largely because cold was one of the Aristotelian primary qualities which had been used to explain other qualities of bodies. Now Boyle investigated cold itself, presenting a great collection of data on different aspects of cold and its effects, including travellers’ reports on extreme conditions which he had not experienced himself. The work’s profuse findings included a demonstration that water expands when frozen, a point denied by Aristotelians, and a critical examination of the latter’s claims for a primum frigidum, a body which would be cold 24 MAGGS BROS LTD

by nature and would transmit this quality to others, and for the doctrine of ‘antiperistasis’, the claim that hot water froze quicker than cold. As in Colours Boyle not only invoked mechanical explanations repeatedly; he also made a virtue of the recourse of experimental data, which had by now become the leitmotif of his intellectual method” - Michael Hunter, Boyle: between God and Science (2009), p.118-9. Provenance: Edward Kendall, late 18th/early 19th-century signature on the title-page.

[42] BOYLE (Robert). Some Considerations touching the Style of the H. Scriptures. Extracted from several parts of a Discourse (concerning divers Particulars belonging to the Bible) Written divers years since to a Friend. Second Edition. 8vo. in 4s. [42], 254 pp. Light marginal browning, with some occasional spotting. Contemporary sheep, ruled in blind, titled “Boil / stile /script” (faded) in ink on the fore-edge (front cover detached, worn, scuffed, bumped and with small pieces missing from the upper and lower headcaps). London: for Henry Herringman, 1663 £180 Wing B4026 (+;+). Fulton, Boyle, 52. The product of Boyle’s interest in Biblical languages and scholarship which he attributed to his aquaintance with scholar and divine James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh. Boyle adapted this work from his “Essay of the holy scriptures”, of which a “substantial though incomplete” manuscript survives. Michael Hunter sees Boyle’s work on this subject as “laying the foundations for a modern understanding of the way in which an accurate knowledge of the dating and evolution of ancient texts, including biblical ones, could be derived from a painstaking analysis of those writings and of their context [...] this has often been seen as one of the great revolutions in the history of western thought.” (Hunter, Boyle: between God and science, 2009) p. 79. Provenance: 1: “Dan[ie]l Williams”, contemporary signature on the flyleaf. 2: “E Libris J Kembler Anno 1755”, inscription on flyleaf.

[43] BOYLE (Robert). Some Considerations touching the usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, propos’d in a Familiar Discourse to a Friend by way of Invitation to the Study of it, by the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. Second Edition - “London Issue A”. 4to., [16], 126, [4]; 416, [18] pp., vertical half-title (3D3). Some minor intermittent light damp staining to the blank margins, verso of G2 and the recto of G3 lightly soiled, closed vertical paper flaw near the gutter at the edge of the printed text on L2, small closed paper flaw to the blank corner of H4, verso of k2 and recto of k3 soiled, small rusthole to the lower blank margin of Mm4-Nn2. Contemporary calf, covers with a double gilt fillet border and a small floral tool at the corners (worn, edges and corners chipped, turn-ins coming unglued, spine chipped at head and foot). Oxford: by Henry Hall Printer to the University, for Ric: Davis, 1664 £600 Wing B4030A (+;+). Madan, Oxford Books, III, 2655*. Fulton, Boyle, 51. An important justification of the formation of the Royal Society and the study of experimental science. While the Royal Society was officially created in 1662, many of its members informally met over the course of the previous fifteen years. Boyle drafted the first part of this work around 1650. In the second part, written later, Boyle discusses in depth the work of his contemporaries, including Digby, Pecquet, Wilkins and Wren. The first edition was issued anonymously at Oxford in 1663 and “was probably very small, as it is now a rare book” (Fulton). Fulton further explains that this, more common, second edition appeared in two different settings. The present copy is part of the “London Issue A” which is distinguished from “Oxford Issue B” by the punctuation on the title-page and the spelling of Richard Davis’s name (“Ric: Davis”) in the imprint. Madan believed that only the first part was printed by Hall and the rest was printed in London. A Second Tome was published in 1671. Michael Hunter believes that Some Considerations... “epitomises Boyle’s aspirations for natural philosophy in relation to the world of affairs: the sheer profusion of examples is in itself telling, and helps to explain the book’s popularity” (Hunter, Boyle: between God and Science, 2009, p.112).

[44] BOYLE (Robert). Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God, pathetically Discours’d of in a Letter to a Friend. The Fourth Edition much corrected 8vo., [18], 173, [1]pp. Title browned by the turn-ins, one or two worm-holes in the lower margin (extending to a short trail from C4 to D3 each leaf throughout, H2 trimmed along the lower edge, a small piece torn away and a closed tear to I3 (touching text). MAGGS BROS LTD 25

Contemporary sheep (heavily worn and scuffed, upper joint split but holding, headcaps missing, pastedowns unstuck torn and stained by the turn-ins). London: for Henry Herringman, 1665 £150 Wing B4035 (+;+). Fulton, Boyle, 4. A collection of moralistic prescriptions to fictional addressees, usually referred to by the title Seraphic Love. This selection is only a small part of what was intended to be a much larger work. Boyle’s first and most popular work, reaching 13 editions by 1700. Provenance: 1: William Warren, Sen., , mid-19th-century bookplate. 2: A. S. Quick, pencil signature dated 17 May 1883 on the flyleaf; a number of pencil markings may be by him.

[45] BOYLE (Robert). Tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle. About The Cosmicall Qualities of things. Cosmicall Suspitions. The Temperature of Subterraneall . The Temperature of the Submarine Regions. The Bottom of the Sea. To which is Praefixt, An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities. First Edition. 8vo., [4 (of 8, title-page and errata; lacking A2 “advertisement” and A3 (blank?) cancelled], 42, [2 (subtitle)], 27, [1 (blank)], 28, [2 (of 4), lacking the blank H7 but with the longitudinal half-title H8], 43, [1 (blank)], [4] (subtitle to “Three Tracts” and “Advertisement” (misbound after [2]C6], 21 ([3]B2-3 cancels], [2 (subtitle)], 16, [without the final two blanks] pp. Title lightly browned, some dampstaining at the beginning and end, paper flaw in the inner margin of H1 affecting the catchword on the verso, [2]C1-6 badly soiled and damsptained and loose with a small hole in C2 affecting one line, tear in C4 and a chip in the margin, tear right across C5 repaired by a blank sheet of paper pasted to the verso (blank) Contemporary calf, panelled in blind (loose in the case, sewing broken, two holes in the lower joint/spine, headbands broken, no front pastedown, no flyleaves). Oxford: by W.H., for Ric. Davis, 1670 [i.e. 1671] £1500 Wing B4056 (+,+). Fulton, Boyle, no. 83. Fulton notes two issues of this book dated 1671 but also notes some copies with the title-page dated 1670 (as here) instead of 1671 as usual and suggests that “it is probably safe to assume that it is a curiosity of printing (due to the falling out of a figure in the date) and not a genuine ealier issue.” In an (imperfect) copy of the 1671 issue in the Stevens-Cox collection the 1671 title-page is clearly a cancel but with the same setting of type except that the “XXI” in the date is in a smaller type size than the “XX”. ESTC lists 7 copies in UK, plus W.A. Clark, Harvard & Toronto with the 1670 title-page. [Bound with]: BOYLE (Robert). Tracts consisting of Observations about the Saltness of the Sea: an Account of a Statical Hygroscope and its Uses: together with an Appendix about the Force of the Air’s Moisture: a Fragment about the Natural and Preternatural State of Bodies. To all which is premis’d a Sceptical Dialogue about the Positive or Privative Nature of Cold: with some Experiments of Mr. Boyl’s referr’d to in that Discourse. By a Member of the Royal Society. First Edition. [6 (of 8; lacking the first blank leaf)], 51, [1 (blank)], [2 (subtitle)], 6, [2 (subtitle)], 5, [1 (blank)], [2 (subtitle/advertisement], 11, [1 (blank), [2 (subtitle/advertisement], 39, [1 (blank)], [2 (subtitle/advertisement)], 5, [1 (blank)], [2 (subtitle/advertisement], 11, [1 (blank)], [2 (subtitle)], 27, [1 (blank), [2 (subtitle/advertisement)], 14 pp. Some dampstaining, mostly marginal, a single wormhole in the margin develops into a short worm-trail towards the end, just touching the text in the last few pages. London: by E. Flesher for R. Davis Bookseller in Oxford, 1674. Wing B4053 (+,+). Fulton, Boyle, no. 113. Wing 4052B (3 copies only), a supposed 1673 issue, is probably a misreported ghost. “Boyle was much interested in the problem of rendering seawater fit for consumption, and much of the present tract is taken up with an account of experiments designed to make this operation feasible for sailors.” - Fulton. 26 MAGGS BROS LTD

[46] BRETON (Nicholas). A Poste with a Packet of Mad Letters. Newly Imprinted. Small 4to. [6], 44, [2 (of 4, lacking the title to part 2, see below], 49-90 [of 92 (lacking the final leaf of text], woodcut of a mounted postman on the title (the block much wormed). Inner margin of the title and first few leaves and the final leaf of part 1 dampstained, dampstain in the lower margin of pp. 31-42 and 59- 68, a short wormtrail (breaking into holes in places) in the inner margin of the first part (there is an old patch over the worming on the final leaf of part 1), final leaf somewhat soiled and slightly short at the lower margin. Late 19th-century half maroon morocco, marbled boards (slightly rubbed). London: for George Badger, 1653 £950 This edition not in Wing or ESTC. Nicholas Breton (pronounced Briton) (1554/5-c.1626) was a voluminous writer of popular prose and poetry in the Elizabethan and early Jacobean ages. STC lists some 60 titles, a number in several editions, by or attributed to him, many of which are known only in one or two copies. Eight titles were reprinted into the Wing period. The presence of the signature of J. S. Hasted (see provenance) on A2 (the dedication leaf) suggests that the title may in fact be the missing title to part 2 (G2) transferred to the front to replace the missing first title. If so this was done at a fairly early date - certainly before the dampstaining in the inner margin at the front and the worming in the inner margin at the end of part 1 and well before the late 19th-century binding. A minute ink stain at the foot of the title could match one at the foot of G3 (the second leaf of part 2). A Poste with a Packet of Mad Letters was one of Breton’s most popular pieces. The first part appeared in 1602 and the second in 1605 and both parts were reprinted several times up to 1637, followed by seven editions listed in Wing (the first 1650? and the last in 1685) plus this which would be the second Wing edition. The woodcut of a galloping postman, the second version, was already of some age (there are several wormholes in it), certainly appearing on the title of the MAGGS BROS LTD 27

1633 edition, but not earlier ones - it was also used in the ?1650 edition (Wing B4387), but not on the title to Part 2 which is replaced with one in reverse also used for the next surviving (1669; Wing B4388) and subsequent editions. Breton’s works were keenly collected in the great age of bibliophily with many ending in the Huth and Britwell collections in the 19th century before crossing the Atlantic in the first decades of this century thanks to the intense efforts of Henry Huntington, Henry Folger and others like W. A. White and have passed into the major American libraries. This copy, however, seems to have remained in the UK: Commercially his works are now so rare that he has become effectively uncollectable. Provenance: 1: Late 18th/early 19th-century signature on A2 (dedication) “J: S: Hasted”, probably John Septimus Hasted (1768, d. after 1825), naval surgeon (retired by 1793), 7th child of Edward Hasted (1732-1812), antiquary and historian of (Breton’s dedication is to Maximilian Dallison, of Hawlin, Kent). 2: Allan D. MacDonald, author of The Stars, and other poems (London: 1938), with bookplate.

[47] BRISTOL. The Loyal City of Bristol, Vindicated from Amsterdamnism, or Devil’s-, two appellatives occasioned by the over credulous, who have hitherto taken it for granted, that the Schismaticks and Hereticks of all sorts were more numerous than the truly Loyal, Orthodox, and Liege people there. But at a late Tryal of skill, managed by the more Vigilant, and Worthy Angel-Guardian of that City, the point has lately been clear’d, and the Churchmen for an Earl have out voted the Fanaticks for a Knight, though to little purpose: For they have rallied again, since the Dissolution, to fetch in the same Persons. But Who? or What? and how Equipp’d? this ensuing Letter (to an Utopian Prelate) will fully inform you. First Edition. Small 4to., [6], 5, [12 i.e 1] pp. Very small stain just touching the lower fore-corner of the title-page, minor marks on the verso of the final leaf but otherwise very clean. Modern paper wrappers. [London or Bristol:] for J. Davies, 1681 £350 Wing L3340 (National Library of Scotland; Folger & Illinois only). The Epistle to the Reader is signed ‘G.J’. and ‘C.B.’ and dated Bristol, May 5th, 1681. A rather obscure work in the form of a letter addressed to the Bishop of Utopia dated 9 Feb. 1680/1 and concerned with a disputed election in the city during the Exclusion Crisis. After Sir Robert Cann was expelled from the House of Commons for denouncing the Popish Plot, Thomas Earle defeated Sir Robert Atkyns in January 1682 and again two months later.

[48] BROME (James). An Historical Account of Mr. Rogers’s Three Years Travels over England and Wales. Giving a True and Exact Description of all the chiefest , Towns and Corporations in England, of Wales, and of Berwick upon Twede. Together with the Antiquities, and Places of Admiration, Cathedrals, Churches of Note in any City, Town or place in each [...] To which is annexed a new map of England and Wales, with the adjacent parts, containing all the cities and market-towns, bound in just before the title. First (unauthorised) Edition. 8vo., [8], 112, 97-128 pp., with the large (300 x 295mm) folding map of England and Wales (closely trimmed). Light dampstain to the fore-edge of the first few leaves, occasional minor worming to the blank fore-margin, final four leaves browned. Early 19th-century russia (extremities rubbed). London: by J. Moxon and B. Bearwell, 1694 £1200 Wing B4857 (British Library, Cambridge, Dr. Williams’s Library; W.A. Clark, Wisconsin & Yale only). “The Historical Account of Mr R. Rogers’s Three Years’ Travels over England and Wales (1694) was later admitted to be by Brome; in the preface to his own Travels over England, Scotland and Wales (1700) Brome claimed that it had only recently come to his notice that his own Travels had been brought out in an imperfect form under Rogers’s name. ... It seems unlikely however that Brome had ever ventured far beyond his own library, since each place receives only a brief historical summary, with the notable exception of Cambridge, where Christ’s College receives a true description extending over several pages.” - ODNB. The folding map is engraved by Sutton Nicholls, includes the roads “acording to J. Oglebey” [John Ogilby] and was published by Moxon. Provenace: 1: Henry Cope, signature on the title and an inscription in the upper margin “Given me by Sr Richard Middleton 1697 H Cope” - Sir Richard Middleton, 3rd. Bart. (1655-1716), of Chirk , Co. Denbigh, Wales. 2: R. Beckley, bookseller, of 42 Piccadilly, London, with early 19th-century yellow engraved label on the front pastedown. 3: JSC’s signature, “Cx” cipher, and “ILCHESTER 1942”. 28 MAGGS BROS LTD

PHILIP BLISS’S COPY SOLD AS A DUPLICATE BY WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD [49] BROME (Richard). Five New Playes, Viz. The English Moor, or The Mock-Marriage. The Love Sick Court, or The Ambitious Politique. Covent Garden Weeded. The New Academy, or The New Exchange. The Queen and Concubine. First Edition. 8vo. [24], 169, [11], 96, 110, [6], 130, [2] pp. Lacking A1, the longitudinal half-title, and sheet ‘h’ consisting of two leaves, h1, the epilogue to “The weeding [sic] of the Covent-Garden” and h2, the subtitle to “The New Academy, or the New Exchange”. With A1 (the title-page to The English Moor) cancelled as often [see below]. Paper flaw to the lower right corner of C4 affecting a letter or two of text on the recto and verso, blank corner of K1 torn-away without loss, the occasional headline cropped, and lightly browned throughout. An old remboitage binding of early 17th century vellum, early manuscript title written vertically to spine partly recoverable “ ... rves de Ba ...” with later title “Brome / Five / Nevv / Playes / 1659” written horizontally (vellum lightly soiled, later endpapers, label removed from foot of spine, lacking ties). London: A. Crook, and for H. Brome, 1659 £450 Wing B4872 (+,+). W.W. Greg notes in English Printed Drama to the Restoration that “the title to The English Moor printed on a4 [present in this copy] has the bare imprint ‘Printed in the year 1659.’ It was evidently intended to replace that on A1 ... but the sheets were evidently issued as printed, and it was left to the binder to effect the substitution, which he sometimes neglected to do”, although not in the case of our copy, as A1 has been cancelled. This collection of plays by Richard Brome (c.1590 - 1652), “the last major dramatist to emerge before the playhouses closed” (ODNB), includes “The English Moor”, “The Love-Sick Court”, “Covent-Garden Weeded [sic]”, “The New Academy, or the New Exchange”, and “The Queen and the Concubine” all published for the first time. 1: Worcester College, Oxford; sold in 1841 as a duplicate to: 2: Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857) Oxford antiquary and book collector. Bliss has added his characteristic “P” in manuscript before signature “B” (to form his initials) and has also added the number “41” indicating the year he acquired this copy (1841). He has also written on the front flyleaf that he acquired this copy as a duplicate from Worcester College, with a reference to the Bodleian Library catalogue.

[50] BROME (Alexander), editor. Rump: Or an exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs relating to the late Times. By the most Eminent Wits, from Anno 1639 to Anno 1661. First Edition. 8vo., [6], 376, 72, 83-200, [2] pp., lacking the longitudinal half-title but with the final blank, Oo4. With the added etched title-page by Wenceslaus Hollar and an additional engraved plate, cir. 1850, of the Rump bound at the front. Small burn-hole to the gutter of K2 affecting one letter of the verso, light discoloration to K3 from burn-hole on preceding leaf, light spotting to O2-O4, small burn-hole to O6 affecting a letter of text on the recto, very light dampstain to lower blank margin of gatherings S-X, repaired burn-hole to the gutter of X3 affecting three letters on the recto, some occasional discoloration, lightly pressed. Late 19th-century emerald morocco by Bedford (spine lightly sunned, lower edges lightly chipped, a couple of minor scrapes to the front cover). London: for Henry Brome, and Henry Marsh, 1662 £575 Wing B4851 (+,+). A good copy of an important collection of royalist verse relating to the troubled period of 1638 to 1661 by such authors as John Cleveland, John Denham, Alexander Brome, John Berkenhead, Richard Corbet, and James Smith. The volume is a great storehouse of social, political, religious and cultural information related to the Civil War and the .

[51] BROWN (Thomas). Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London First Edition. 8vo., [2], 160 pp. Some light dampstaining (particulaly to sheet B). Contemporary sprinkled calf (joints split at head and foot of spine, corners bumped and with front flyleaves coming loose). London: for John Nutt, 1700 £220 Wing B5051 (+;+). MAGGS BROS LTD 29

In the preface Brown declares: “The whole Life of Man is but one entire amusement.... One Amuses himself by Ambition, another by Interest, and another by that Foolish Passion Love. Little Folks Amuse themselves in Pleasures, Great Men in the Acquisition of Glory, and I am Amused to think that all this is nothing but Amusement”. Brown reveals his extensive knowledge of London in his sketches of the centres of Amusement, including the Court, Westminster Hall, the Play House, Gaming Houses, Coffee Houses, and a Herald’s Office. Provenance: Signature on the title-page “Russell Robartes” and armorial bookplate of the Hon. Russell Robartes (1694-1718), M.P. for Bodmin, a Teller of the Exchequer, son of Bodmin, grandson of the 1st Earl of Radnor. Another signature roughly deleted.

[52] BROWNE (Sir Thomas). Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths. First Edition. Small Folio., [20], 386, [2 (blank)] pp., with the imprimatur leaf and the final blank leaf. Title and imprimatur leaf creased, 70mm vertical tear from a paper flaw to the fore-edge of b2 (between the rules but not touching text), large (110 x 20mm) piece torn away from the fore-edge of Kk3 (with loss to the outer rule), two circular stains to the upper fore-corner of Pp3. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, fragment of a printed leaf from ’s An Explication of the Hundreth and Tenth Psalme (1632) as binder’s waste at the front (joints rubbed; no pastedowns or front flyleaf; but a good copy). London: by T[homas]. H[arper], for Edward Dod,1646 £1200 Wing B5159 (+,+). Keynes Browne, 73. The more common state of the title-page with Harper’s initials only in the imprint. This is Sir Thomas Browne’s most considerable work, commonly referred to as “Browne’s Vulgar Errors”. It was probably compiled from the common-place books he kept over a number of years, and may have been inspired by Bacon’s dictum that to a “calendar of doubts or problems, I advise be annexed another calendar, as much or more material, which is a calendar of popular errors: I mean chiefly in natural history such as pass in speech and conceit, and are nevertheless detected and convicted of untruth”. Provenance: George Cary, 17th-century deleted signature on the blank recto of the imprimatur leaf.

[53] BROWNE (Sir Thomas). Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or Enquiries into very many Received Tenents and commonly Presumed Truths. The Fourth Edition. With Marginal Observations, and a Table Alphabetical. whereunto are now added two Discourses the one of Urn-Burial, or Sepulchrall Urns, lately found in Norfolk. The other of the Garden of Cyrus, or Network Plantations of the Antients. Fourth Edition of Pseudodoxia, second edition of Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus. 4to., [16], 118, 135-331, [1], 333-417, [1], 419-468, [12], 1-30, [2], 35-73, [18]pp., with the longitudinal half title before the second section. Title-page very lightly browned, a small dampstain in the lower margin of sheet “a”, and with very occasional spotting, pastedowns and end leaves stained by the turn-ins. Contemporary calf ruled in blind, early manuscript paper label on the spine, endleaves from printed sheets from an edition of Aristotle (one on winds in Latin) and another work in Latin (joints rubbed, a handsome copy); probably an Oxford binding with diagonal blind hatching at the head and tail of the spine. London: Edward Dod, and are to be sold by Andrew Crook, 1658 £450 Wing B5162 (+;+) Keynes, Browne, 76 & 94. Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, edited by Robin Robbins, 2 vols (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981). With the advertisement leaf for books published by Henry Brome before the index. This edition is “a shoddy reprint ... containing many mistakes and misprints, along with an authorial errata-list” (Robbins, p. l) of the third edition of the same year but with second editions of Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus appended (both first published earlier in the same year). The errata list, covering all three texts, is new to this reprint, and “containing some substantial and unobvious corrections, must be regarded as authorial” (Robbins). In addition there is an “indubitably authorial” (Robbins) list of “Marginall Illustrations omitted, or to be added to the Discourses of Urn-Buriall, and of the Garden of Cyrus.”

[54] BROWNE (Sir Thomas). Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with the Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered. With Sundry Observations. First Edition. 8vo., [16], 102 [i.e. 202], [6] pp. Lacking the errata leaf found in some copies [see below]. Title-page lightly soiled 30 MAGGS BROS LTD and spotted, some occasional light foxing. 19th-century olive morocco by Ramage, gilt edges (a few minor chips to spine). London: printed for Hen[rey] Brome,1658 £1200 Wing B5154. Keynes, Browne, 93. With the leaf “The Stationer to the Reader”, giving a formal denial that Browne was the Author of the “Nature’s Cabinet Unlock’d”; the leaf of “Books Printed by Hen. Broome”, and the longitudinal title “Dr. Brown’s Garden of Cyrus.” Without the errata leaf found in some copies inserted after O6 or pasted to one of the blank leaves at the end. “The composition of Hydriotaphia was suggested to Browne by the discovery near Norwich of a group of cinerary urns of late Roman date. Around this theme he has woven a tissue of solemn reflections in his most luxuriant style, and the essay is accounted by some to be the supreme of his art.” – Keynes. Provenance: 1: a few 19th-century pencil notes to the margins. 2: S.A. Pope, early 20th-century signature on the flyleaf.

“THE CHERY AND THE SLAE” [55] BUCHANAN (George). Octupla; hoc est Octo Paraphrases Poeticae Psalmi CIV. Authoribus totidem Scotis, ... Hisce adjicitur propter Subjecti similtudinem, & Exemplarium inopiam, Jonas Propheta, Heroico Carmine Latino descriptus, Sebastione Castalione Authore. [- MONTGOMERY (Alexander). Cerasum et Sylvestre Prunum. Opus poematicum.] 8vo., [33], 53, 30, 48pp. Contemporary sprinkled panelled calf, spine with the gilt crowned orange device of the Earl of Marchmont (joints cracking, spine rubbed). Edinburgh: Excudebant Haeredes & Successores Andreae Anderson, 1696. Et venales prostant in Officina M. Hen. Knox, in Aedificiis vulgo dictis the Lucken-Booths. £280 One of two reissues of Wing B2771C (with imprint on a pasted-on slip). ESTC lists W.A.Clark, Folger & Huntington only of this issue. Bound (and issued with) the first edition of Thomas Dempster’s translation of Alexander Montgomery’s Scottish dialect poem “The Chery and the Slae” first published at Artauni Francorum [Ortenburg] in 1631 (Wing M2497, + in UK; Clark, Folger, Huntington & Illinois in USA.). Edited by Andrew Symson. Comprises a reprint of George Buchanan’s 1620 defence to George Eglisham’s attack on his verse translation of Psalm 104, together with Latin versions of the same psalm by six other Scots poets, including Arthur Johnston and Henry Henryson. Also with Sebastien Castellion’s verse translation of the Book of Jonah as published in 1545. Provenance: Bound for Patrick Hume (1641-1724), 1st. Earl of Marchmont, Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, with his bookplate, dated 1702, signature as Lord “Polwarth” on the verso of the title and date “1702” opposite. There are also early manuscript library shelf-marks on the flyleaf. Sir Patrick Hume fled into exile in the in the aftermath of the Rye House Plot in 1683 and took part in Argyll’s rebellion in May 1685. He escaped again to Holland (for a time posing as a doctor named Wallace in Utrecht) and his estates and titles were forfeited and his son held as a hostage in London before joining his father in Holland in 1686. Both entered the service of the Prince of Orange and accompanied him to England. He was created Baron Polwarth in 1690 and Earl of Marchmont in 1697. The crowned orange on his bookplate and on the spine were an honourable augmentation to his arms granted by William III.

[56] BULTEEL (John, editor). The Apophthegmes of the Ancients; taken out of Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, Elian, Atheneus, Stobeus, Macrobius, and others. Collected into one volume for the benefit of the ingenious. First Edition. 8vo., [16], 112, 123-335, [3 (advertisements)] pp., with the first blank leaf. Small paper flaw to the lower blank margin of N6, light browning and some light spotting. Contemporary sheep (joints rubbed, wormhole in the top joint, tiny chip to the headcap, pastedowns unstuck). London: for William Cademan, 1683. £360 Wing A3560B (+ in UK; W.A.Clark, Illinois, Kansas & Yale in USA). Only edition of a collection of wise and amusing sayings culled mainly from classical authors such as Plutarch and Diogenes Laertius as well as the more recent, e.g. Erasmus and Conrad Lycosthenes. The compiler of this work, the translator and linguist John Bulteel (d. cir. 1692), writes in his preface that he has revised and corrected many mistakes made by the original authors. He writes that “Erasmus himself has committed an hundred faults, thorough his great hast, and because he went about it but by piece-meal, some part at one time, others at another” (A7r). MAGGS BROS LTD 31

[57] BURDETT (Walter). “For Madam Coke at Melborne in Darby- this is. / A Picture Designed by Cebes of Thebes, A platoniq philosopher.” Large double-page engraved plate of the “Tabula” of Cebes of Thebes, with text beneath in Latin and Dutch, by Hugo Allard or Allardt (pasted to the inside of the front wrapper and split apart down the centre of the fold). Folio. Manuscript on paper. [19]pp. Original buff wrappers (cover detached). London, Inner Temple, November 3rd, 1679 £500 (+ VAT in UK & EU) The plate, a copy of an earlier print by Jacob Matham after Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1617) by Hugo Allard or Allardt (Dutch, 1627-84) depicts a reconstruction of the Tabula or painting said to have hung in the Temple of Cronos at Athens or Thebes and described in a text, supposedly by Cebes of Thebes, a disciple of Socrates, but now thought to date from the 1st. century A.D. It was a popular image in the 16th and 17th centuries, appealing as a form of proto-pilgrim’s progress. The text (which was previously translated into English by John Davies of Kidwelly in 1670) is preceded by a dedication to Mary Coke: “Madam Coke, You blamed mee for not showing you some pictures of my own Drawing when you were last here, I therefore have ventured to Commit a thousand faults in Endeavouring to lessen One; However, I hope the Paper may serve this Winter for a Screen to preserve that Beauty which is out-done by nothing but the Goodness from which I hope to have a pardon”. Mary Coke (d. 1680) was the daughter of Sir Thomas Leventhorpe, of Shingehall, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire and wife of John Coke (c. 1653-1692), of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, M.P. for Derbyshire 1685/7 and 1689/90, gentleman usher to Catherine of Braganza and “a critic of the policies of James II and an active supporter of the revolution of 1688” (ODNB). Walter Burdett (d. 1732), of Knoyle Hill, Derbyshire, was the younger son of Sir Francis Burdett, 3rd. Bart., of Foremark, Derbyshire. He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford on 1 April 1664 aged 17, B.A. 1667, barrister-at-law, Inner Temple 1674 and had charge of John and Mary Coke’s children after John’s death at Geneva in 1692. He was, presumably, their lawyer at the time that he wrote this manuscript in 1679. Nothing is known of him as an amateur artist.

[58] BURNET (Thomas). The Theory of the Earth: containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the Consummation of all Things. The Two First Books Concerning the Deluge and Concerning Paradise. First Edition. Folio., [20], 327, [1] pp., engraved frontispiece, twelve engraved plates in the text and 2 double-page engraved plates of the earth bound after page 150 (80mm tear along the fold of the second plate from the lower margin). Occasional spotting and light browning. Contemporary sprinkled calf, covers panelled in blind (front joint split but firm, covers a little scuffed, headcaps broken, lower corner on the front cover damaged, other corners and edges rubbed). London: R. Norton for Walter Kettilby, 1684 £750 Wing B5950 (+;+). A translation of the first two books of Burnet’s Telluris theoria sacra (1681). In 1690 Burnet published his translation of books three and four. A leading theologian, it was his work as a natural philosopher, and this work in particular, that has gained Burnet a substantial reputation, albeit somewhat dubious, among many scientists for his literal reading of the Bible’s account of Creation.

[59] BURTON (William). A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, or Journies of the Romane Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain: wherein the first Foundation of our Cities, Lawes, and Government, according to the Roman Policy, are clearly discovered; [...] with many Antiquities, Medalls, Inscriptions, and Urnes are recovered from the ruine of Time. A Work very usefull for all Historians, Antiquaries, Philologists, and more particularly for the Student of Laws. With a Chorographicall Map of the several Stations: and Index’s to the whole Work. First Edition, Folio., [22], 266, [6] pp., etched portrait of Burton by Hollar, double-page etched map by Hollar, a few woodcut illustrations in the text. Small stain on the title-page, very lightly spotted in places. Contemporary sheep (old reback, corners repaired, area of loss to the leather at the head of the lower cover, new endleaves). London: Tho. Roycroft, and are to be sold by Henry Twyford and T. Twyford, 1658 £350 Wing B6185 (+;+). 32 MAGGS BROS LTD

First edition in English of the earliest extended topographical account of the British Isles. It was probably written in the 3rd Century, and little is known of Antoninus, though he may have been an engineer or civil servant, with access to the surveys conducted by and Augustus. “Burton went back to the Itinerary, subjected it to comparative analysis by looking at the variant editions that had been printed, related it to the other geographical texts about Britain that had survived from antiquity, and devoted a whole volume to identifying the towns and stations of Roman Britain, and to providing as full an acount as possible of the Roman occupation, its extent, and its cultural impact on Britain.” - Graham Parry, The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of the Seventeenth Century (1995), p. 263.

[60] [BUSBY (Dr. Richard). Rudimentum Grammaticae Latinae metricum. In usum Nobilium puerulorum in Schola Regia Westmonasterii. 8vo., 52, [2 (errata, verso blank)] pp (interleaved with blanks), woodcut Westminster School arms on the title. A small circular stain just touching the title-page coat of arms and minor spotting throughout, the errata page has been misprinted with some loss to text, and top corners beginning to fold between gatherings B-D, but generally a clean copy. Contemporary sprinkled calf, covers panelled in blind (worn, corners bumped, pastedowns unstuck). London: Ex Officina Eliz. Redmayne, 1699 £240 This edition not in Wing. ESTC locates copies at British Library & Westminster School. An early edition (the first was 1688) of the much-reprinted Latin grammar by the famous schoolmaster Richard Busby. Provenance: John & Robert Bere, presumably brothers at Westminster, both have signed the book at the front and back: “Robert Bere His Book 1702” and “John Bere His Book god give him grace therein to look and when for him the bell doth tole the Lord of heaven Reseve his soul anadomini 1702” and with annoations on only two of the blank interleaves.

[61] BUTLER (Samuel). Hudibras. The First Part. Written in the time of the late Wars. Small 8vo., [2], 125 pp. [2], 125, [1] pp., imprimatur on verso of the title lacking the final blank H8. Some minor repairs to the margins of the title-page of the first work, first work lightly soiled and foxed, second work with minor dampstain to the lower right corner of the first three or four gatherings. 19th-century half calf and marbled boards (spine rubbed and chipped, corners chipped, boards rubbed). London: Printed in the year 1663 £150 Wing B6299 (British Library, Cambridge, Magdalene College Cambridge in UK; W.A. Clark & Huntington in USA). Fourth pirated edition, distinguished by the inverted pyramid of fleurs-de-lys type ornaments on the title-page with 13 items in the top row. [Bound with]: BUTLER (Samuel). Hudibras. The Second Part. By the author of the First. London: T.[homas] R.[oycroft] for John Martyn, and James Allestry, 1664. Wing B6310 (+;+). The second authorized edition of the second part.

ARMS OF SIR WILLIAM BOOTHBY [62] CAMOENS (Luis de). FANSHAWE (Sir Richard), translator. The Lusiad, or, Portugals Historicall Poem: Written in the Portingall Language by Luis De Camoens; and Now newly put into English by Richard Fanshaw Esq. Engraved frontispiece of a bust of Camoens with verse beneath by Thomas Cross, folding plates of Prince Henry of Portugal and Vasco de Gama (small tear at fold). Folio. [22], 224 pp. A5 with a paper repair at the top corner and loss of about a dozen letters in total. A few minor stains. Two small worm-holes in the lower blank margin throughout. Contemporary panelled calf, covers with the gilt arms block of Sir William Boothby (rebacked, lower right corner of cover repaired, the covers are rather worn and faded; front flyleaf repaired). London: [by Thomas Newcombe] for Humphrey Moseley, 1655 £4000 Wing C397 (+;+). Pforzheimer 362. Camoens’s Lusiads, an account of Vasco da Gama’s voyage to Africa and India in 1497-8, is one of the great literary monuments of European imperialism; its 18th- MAGGS BROS LTD 33

century translator William Mickle called it “the epic poem of the birth of commerce”. Reviewing Landeg White’s new verse translation in the Times Literary Supplement, (12 Feb. 1999), the poet Lachlan Mackinnon praised Fanshawe’s version for its vivid detail, and described it as a “minor classic ... which is, astonishingly, out of print”. Provenance: Signature on the title and gilt arms on the covers of Sir William Boothby, 1st Baronet (1637-1707), of Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire, book collector. Boothby is remembered for a series of diaries and letter-books written between 1676 and 1689 which were unearthed in 1994 at Fonmon Castle, . They provide an insight into the provincial literary community of the time and Boothby’s passion for book collecting (“My books are the great joy of my life”). His library was said to have been made up of 6000 books and was retained in the family until it was sold before the year 1776 and thus dispersed. (See Peter Beal, “‘My Books are the great joy of my life’: Sir William Boothby, seventeenth-century bibliophile” in The Book Collector, 46 (1997, pp. 350-78). Also with a later signature of Aubrey Fawshawe and a note “from his father” Basil Thomas Fanshawe (1857-1944) of Bratton, North Devon, with his bookplate. Two small descriptions pasted onto the pastedown. Some pencil notes throughout.

[63] CAPEL (Arthur, Baron Capel of Hadham). Excellent Contemplations, Divine and Moral. Written by the magnanimous and truly loyal Arthur Lord Capel, Baron of Hadham. Together with some account of his life, and his letters to several persons, whilst he was prisoner in the Tower vigorously asserting the Royal cause against all the enemies thereof. Likewise his affectionate letters to his lady, the day before his death, and his courageous behaviour, and last speech at his suffering, March 9. 1648. With his pious advice to his son the late Earl of . First Edition. 12mo., [2 (of 4, without the first blank leaf)], 201, 222-223, [9]pp., engraved portrait of Capel (mounted and repaired along inner margin) Small piece torn from the blank lower margin of F1, small hole (paper flaw?) to the blank corner of F6. 19th-century sprinkled calf by Bedford. London: for Nath[aniel]. Crouch, 1683 £350 Wing C469 (+;+). Arthur Capel (?1610-1649), was created Baron Capel of Hadham; an ardent royalist, he was captured at Colchester and was beheaded on the 9th March 1649. This work incorporates his Dailey Observations and Certaine Letters first published in 1655. Provenance: William Twopenny, late 19th/early20th-century label.

[64] CAREW (Thomas). Poems, Songs and Sonnets, Together with a Masque. [...] The Fourth Edition “Revised and Enlarged”. 8vo., [2], 230 pp. Foxed and browned, heaviest in the margins, occasional repairs to the fore and upper edge, closely shaved along the lower edge (touching the catchwords and signatures on a number of leaves). Early 20th-century half calf and cloth boards. London: Henry Herringman, 1670 £180 Wing C566 (+;+). Provenance: 1: “W[illia]m Gates”, 18th-century signature on the title-page. 2. H.F.B. Brett Smith (1896-1942), academic and literary editor of the Shakespeare Head Press, with his pencil signature on the flyleaf. 3: Francis K. W. Needham, of Christ Church, Oxford with ink inscription on the flyleaf dated March 20th 1922: “I had this from Mr. Brett-Smith (in exchange for the 1st Ed of Denham) - an imperfect copy of the 1647 Faithfull Shepherd also”, pencil note on the front flyleaf. 3. John [?Harr]ison, signature on the pastedown dated 1926. 34 MAGGS BROS LTD

[65] CARLETON (George). Astrologomania: the Madnesse of Astrologers. With an Examination of Sir Christopher Heydons Book, intituled A Defence of Judiciary Astrologie. Written by G.C. for the use of such as might haply be misled by Astrologie and the Knights Book. Published by T[homas].V[icars]. B[achelor]. of D[ivinity]. Second Edition. 8vo., [16], 186, [6] pp., with the first blank leaf (inner margin with an old guard). Closely shaved at the head. Contemporary sheep ruled in blind (rebacked, corners chewed, upper edge of the front cover slightly wormed). London: by R.C. for John Hammond, 1651. £400 Wing C584 (+;+). Carleton’s work was a response to Christopher Heydon’s A Defence of Judiciall Astrologie (1603) in which Heydon drew upon his own extensive library to argue that astrology was a valid science, “vindicated by experience and fully compatible with Christianity” (ODNB). Carleton’s work, first published in 1624, pointed out that Heydon’s work “was more impressive for its learning than its logic” (ODNB). Provenance: “Ni[cholas?] Saunderson”, signature on the title-page, perhaps that of the mathematician (1683-1739).

PRESENTATION COPY TO SIR WILLIAM DUGDALE [66] CARTER (Matthew). Honor rediviuus [sic] or an analysis of Honor and Armory. First Edition, one of two issues. 8vo., [12], 88; 84, 87-89, [1], 87-171, [1] pp., leaf 2F3, pp. 85/86, has been cancelled and replaced by chi2, pp. 87-89, [1] while the text is continuous. Etched title-page by Richard Gaywood and an engraved frontispiece of Carter’s coat-of-arms, and seven etched portraits illustrating ranks of nobility in ceremonial dress (the earl is a portrait of the 14th Earl of Arundel; numerous armorial woodcuts with four in contemporary hand colour. Possibly a thick paper copy. Some light foxing and occasional staining. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in gilt (recently rebacked, covers worn, chipped especially at corners and edges, mid-19th-century endleaves). London: by E[llen] Coates, 1655 £3200 Wing C658A (British Library & John Rylands Library in UK; Huntington, Illinois, Texas & Yale in USA). The other issue has the names of Thomas Heath and Henry Herringman added to the imprint (Wing C658 +,+). This particularly apt association copy was presented by the author to William Dugdale (1605-1686) - the most important antiquary and herald of the 17th century. Matthew Carter (fl. 1648-1650), royalist army officer, campaigned against the Parliamentarians in Kent and Essex until he was captured and imprisoned at the fall of Colchester in 1648. While imprisoned, Carter produced a treatise on heraldry, Honor Redivivus, which appeared in two issues in 1655 and also appeared in a second edition in 1660. There are two main repositories of Dugdale association items: the British Library (which has the much of his heraldic correspondence, collections and papers [Add MSS. 29570, 32116, 38017, 38140-41] among other things) and the Bodleian library (which has a wide ranging selection of his papers and annotated books). There are manuscript ink corrections to the text on leaves a1v, B8v, E1r, I6R, I7r, K6r (only the second is in the errata list). Provenance: 1: presented by the author to Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686); inscribed by Dugdale in ink on the flyleaf “Liber Gulielmi Dugdale, ex dono authoris”. Dugdale had been appointed a junior Herald just before the Civil War, during which he joined the royalist side. He spent the Interregnum years engaged in antiquarian researches – the first volume of his monumental Monasticon Anglicanum was published in 1655, the same year as Carter’s book. After the Restoration he returned to the College of Arms, rising to Garter King-of-Arms in 1677 when he was knighted. 2. James Robinson Planche (1796-1880), playwright and herald, with armorial bookplate. Planche initiated a series of productions of plays by Shakespeare and by doing so “helped to bring about a revolution in nineteenth century stage practice” (ODNB).

[67] CARTER (Matthew). Honor rediviuus [sic] or an analysis of Honor and Armory. Second Edition. 8vo., [10], 256, 247-251, [3 ( last leaf blank)] pp., etched title by Robert Gaywood, engraved frontispiece of Carter’s coat-of-arms and seven etched plates illustrating the robes of the ranks of nobility (the earl is a portrait of the 14th earl of Arundel); numerous woodcut coats-of-arms in the text. Very minor foxing to the blank margins of B1-2 and with some early MAGGS BROS LTD 35 inked hash markings in the margins throughout. 19th-century calf, covers with a gilt tooled border (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves). London: for Henry Heringman, [1660] £200 Wing C659 (+;+). First published in 1655. The imprint on the etched title has been altered to delete the name of the printer E. Coates and co-publisher Thomas Heath, of the first edition. Provenance: With a 19th-century manuscript family tree on the front fyleaf from Thomas Carter (d. 1603), of Crundale, Kent [the family of the author] to the children of Mary Toke (d. 1875) and Charles Frederick Jarvis (d. 1903).

[68] CARTWRIGHT (William). Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, by Mr William Cartwright, [...] The Ayres and Songs set by Mr Henry Lawes, servant to His Late Majesty in his publick and private musick. First Edition. 8vo, [124], 148, [4], 1-306, 301-320 pp., engraved portrait by Lombart (small rust-hole at the foot of the image, repaired). Sidenote on [-]3v and b2r shaved, tear repaired at head of **7, G8v stained, other occasional small stains. Early 19th- century calf, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spine. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1651 £600 Wing C709 (+,+). Greg, English Drama, III, 1027-31. With all the inserted leaves and cancels called for by Greg. “The variations in this perplexing volume are too complicated to permit of formal analysis or a complete record of the copies in which they occur” - Greg. The note to the binder at the foot of ****1 is intact but just a vestige of the note to the binder at the foot of [paraph]1 survives. With 106pp. of commendatory verses, including ones by (?)Katherine Philips, Sir Edward Dering, Sir John Pettus, Sir Robert Stapylton, Jasper Mayne, James Howell, Henry Vaughan, John Fell, Henry Lawes, Alexander Brome, and Izaak Walton. Provenance: 1: Sir Francis Freeling, 1st. Bart. (1764-1836), with armorial bookplate. 2: Francis Darby, ironmaster, of Colebrookdale, with 19th-century armorial bookplate.

[69] CARY (John). An Account of the Proceedings of the Corporation of Bristol, in Execution of the Act of Parliament for the better Employing and Maintaining the Poor of that City. Scarcer of the two editions. 8vo., [2], [21], [1] pp. Light spotting, a small wormhole and a short tear (not touching text) to the title-page. Mid-20th-century quarter morocco and green cloth boards. London: by F. Collins, and are to be sold by John Nutt, 1700 £750 Wing C724A (British Library, Cambridge & Durham Cathedral Library in UK; W.A. Clark, Newberry Library, Pennsylvania in USA). A slightly more common variant has only Collins’s name in the imprint. An account of Cary’s attempt to reduce poverty and unemployment in Bristol. Cary believed that “unemployment decreased the wealth of the nation and diminished its moral worth” (ODNB), and with this is mind he founded the first workhouse in the city.

[70] CARY (John). A Discourse concerning the East-India-Trade. A Discourse concerning the East-India-Trade [sic]. Shewing how it is Unprofitable to the . Being taken out of An Essay on Trade; Written by Mr. John Cary, Merchant in Bristol, in the year 1695. To which are added Some Observations of Sir Jos. Child and of the Author of the Essay on Ways and means Relating to Trade [Charles Davenant]. And also a Copy of the French King’s , Concerning Printed Callicoes. Small 4to., [2], 14 pp. Lightly browned and with a small faint ink splash on the title-page. Disbound. London: for E. Baldwin, 1699 £750 Wing C726 (Bristol Central Library, British Library [2 copies], Cambridge, All Souls’ College Oxford, Senate House Library; Harvard, Library of Congress, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania & Yale). A mercantilist critique of the East India Company in which Cary, a Bristol Merchant Venturer, argued against the exportation of bullion on the grounds that it 36 MAGGS BROS LTD

was not beneficial to English trade. This edition was reprinted from An essay on the state of England in relation to its trade (Bristol, 1695) and is preceded by two separate editions in 1696.

[71] CARY (John). A Discourse concerning the Trade of Ireland and Scotland, as they stand in competition with the Trade of England, being taken out of an Essay on Trade. First Separate Edition. Small 4to., [2], 13, [1] pp. Small hole through the title-page and second leaf, A2-3 heavily soiled and with some dampstaining to the upper fore-corner throughout. Stitched as issued, edges trimmed. Reprinted at London, 1695 £750 Wing C727 (+;+). Originally published as part of Cary’s An essay on the state of England in relation to its trade (1695). Provenance: Light pencil notes on the blank verso of the final leaf.

[72] CARY (John). An Essay on the Coyn and Credit of England: as they stand with Respect to its Trade. By John Cary, Merchant in Bristol. First Edition. Small 8vo., [8], 40 pp., with the half-title. Light staining to the inner margin on verso of the half-title and with the final leaf slightly foxed. Mid-20th-century half brown pigskin and marbled boards. Bristol: by Will. Bonny, and sold by the booksellers of London and Bristol, October the 22d, 1696 £2000 Wing C729 (+;+). In An Essay on the coyn Cary addressed the problem of the scarcity of coin after the great recoinage. “He advocated a national system of credit to prevent gambling in currency; such a system would fulfil the needs of government and traders” (ODNB). A facsimile of this was published, but not widely distributed, by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1976 (100 copies). Provenance: JSC’s pencil signature, “Cx” cipher, and purchase note “Georges Bristol July 1942”.

[73] CARY (John). A Vindication of the , in answer to a Book, written by William Molyneux of Dublin, Esq; Intituled, The Case of being bound by Acts of Parliament in England, stated. First Edition. 8vo., [8], 127, [1] pp. Lightly browned. Mid-19th-century half calf and marbled boards (one corner scuffed). London: Freeman Collins, and are to be sold by Sam. Crouch, and Eliz. Whitlock, 1698 £250 Wing C734 (+;+). Cary’s Vindication was written in reply to a pamphlet by William Molyneux; Cary calls for the “restraining” of wool exportation from Ireland; failure to do so, he argues, will end in the “ruining” of the poor, mass migration to Ireland and the reduction in value of English lands. Provenance: Charles Wells, early 20th-century label.

[74] CARYLL (John). Naboth’s Vinyard: or, the Innocent Traytor: copied from the original or Holy Scripture, in heroick verse. Second Edition. Small 4to., 20 pp. Title lightly browned and with two small (55 x 20 mm) circular damp stains at the foot of B1 and B2. 19th-century marbled wrappers. London: for C. R., 1679 £100 Wing C745B (+;+). First published in folio in the same year. A verse attack on Lord Chief Justice Scroggs’s trial of five Cathoic lords caught up in the Popish Plot. Provenance: with JSC’s “Cx” cipher. MAGGS BROS LTD 37

[75] CATULLUS (CaiusValerius). VOSSIUS (Isaac), editor. CaiusValerius Catullus et in eum IsaaciVossii observationes. Medium 4to., [4], 343, [31 (final leaf with errata)] pp. Dampstain at the upper inner corner of the first few leaves, some minor rust spots. Contemporary vellum over pasteboards (slightly soiled). [Leiden]: Prostant apud Issacum Littleburii Bibliopolam Londinensem, 1684 £180 Wing C1526 (+;+). A reissue of the sheets of the 1684 Leiden editon, with a new title page giving the London bookseller Isaac Littlebury’s name. Provenance: 1: Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (1641-1724), Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, with his bookplate dated 1702 and shelfmarks on the front flyleaf; occasional line numbering and Latin annotations throughout. 2: David M. Rankin, of Edinburgh, early 20th-century signature on front pastedown.

[76] CHALKHILL (John). Thealma and Clearchus. A Pastoral History in smooth and easie Verse. Written long since, by John Chalkhill, Esq; An Acquaintant and Friend of Edmund Spencer. First Edition. 8vo., [8], 168pp., with the first blank leaf. Small chip from a paper flaw at the foot of C3 and with a small piece from the lower blank corner of C4 torn away; A3 very closely trimmed along the fore-edge (not touching text), 30mm closed tear from a paper flaw to the corner of D3 (touching catchword on recto), and with a small stain on H6v. Contemporary sheep (worn, covers heavily scuffed and bumped, spine very rubbed and with some worm damage at the foot, upper headcap torn away; rear flyleaf torn and beginning to come loose). London: for Benj. Tooke,1683 £600 Wing C1795 (+;+). The second issue, with the corrected state of the title with ‘Edward Spencer’ corrected to ‘Edmund Spencer’. John Chalkhill remains an elusive figure, though progress was made with the discovery of a group of autograph manuscripts in 1958. He was born about 1595, (which is four years before Spenser’s death), attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and died in 1642. There is no evidence that Walton knew him personally, though he edited this volume, and described Chalkhill in the preface as “a man generally known and as well belov’d; for he was humble and obliging in his behaviour, a gentleman, a scholar, very innocent and prudent: and indeed his whole life was useful, quiet, and virtuous”. Two poems by ‘Io. Chalkhill’ are printed in The Compleat Angler, 1653. This volume contains a poem addressed to Walton by Thomas Flatman, and ends with the note ‘And here the Author dy’d, and I hope the Reader will be sorry’. It is very hard to find copies of this book in a contemporary binding (albeit worn) and with a contemporary provenance; almost all copies that we have handled in the last 35 years were in 19th or 20th-century bindings, presumably thanks to Izaak Walton collectors. Provenance: 1: Anonymous ink purchase note on the front flyleaf: “ffeb: 14th [16]83/4 pr. 1s.-3d.”. 2: Hon. Edward Monckton (1744-1832), younger son of the 1st Viscount Galway, of Somerford Hall, Stafford, with signature “Ed Monckton” on the title and armorial bookplate.

[77] CHARLES I. His Maiesties Message to the House of Peers Aprill 22. 1642. With the humble Petition Of the Knights, Iustices of the Peace Gentlemen, Ministers, Freeholders and others of the County of Cornwall. Beeing the true coppie of the agreevances of the said whole Countie, as it was delivered Aprill the 22. 1642. (to the House of Commons) by some thereunto appointed. Hen. Elfyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. First Edition. Small 4to., [3], 5 pp. Cropped at the head with loss of the top-half of the first line of the title (“HIS MAIESTIES”), drop-head title on A2r and ornament on the verso slightly shaved, pagination on A3r (“3” lost) and on the others shaved, dampstain in the inner margin of the first two leaves. Early 20th-century quarter red morocco and marbled boards (boards a little faded). London: Printed for I.T.,1642 £950 Wing C2483A (“Private Collection” [i.e. this copy] only). A facsimile of this was published (but not widely distributed) by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1978 from which the ESTC entry was made. The first part (p.2) is the King’s response to the broadside A Question answered: how the laws are to be understood, and obedience yeelded? (1642). This has been attributed to Henry Parker (see Mendle’s appendix to Henry Parker and the , 1995, p.194). The King’s response was also printed as a broadside (Wing C2481). 38 MAGGS BROS LTD

The second part, the petition is mostly occupied with Cornish concerns about the Rebellion in Ireland and its effects on the county. It is not the same as Wing H3502 - another Cornish petition of the same year. Provenance: Hon. Sir Hew Dalrymple (1857-1945), M.P. for Wigtownshire 1915-18, son of the 10th Earl of Stair, with bookplate. A bookseller’s catalogue cutting for this copy has also been loosely inserted, item 274, 31/6.

[78] CHARLES I. Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of his Sacred Majesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings. Whereunto are annexed his Praiers and Apophthegms, &c. 8vo., [8], 236, 12, [2], 52 pp., lacking the final blank, with the two engraved plates laid-down and mounted on a stub opposite the title. Small piece torn away from the upper corner of the title-page (not touching text but removing an ink name or price), inscription cut from the head of the first leaf, light browning to the margins throughout, dampstain to the inner margin of [2]A1- [2]B4, book-block split at p. 160. Contemporary black morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt with a border and panel, the inside corners filled with flower and scroll tools and small hearts and a central lozenge with a crown and intitals “CR” in the middle, smooth spine (a once-handsome binding, the covers still bright, but the spine badly worn and defective at the head and tail, corners worn, some rubbing on the lower cover, late 19th-century marbled endleaves). [London]: by W[illiam]. D[u-gard]. [for Francis Eglesfield] in R.M. Anno Dom. 1649 £200 Wing E305A (+;+). Madan, Eikon Basilike, 22. The Eikon Basilike (or “Royal Image or Portrait”) was one of the great publishing successes of the 17th century. Copies were for sale in London within days of the King’s execution on 30 January 1649 and Madan’s bibliography records some sixty editions published in England and abroad in 1649 alone.

[79] CHARLES I. The Princely Pellican. Royall Resolves Presented in sundry choice Observations, extracted from His Majesties Divine Meditations: With Satisfactory Reasons to the whole Kingdome, That His Sacred Person was the onely Author of them. First Edition thus. Small 4to., [8], 48 pp., woodcut frontispiece of a pelican feeding its young, surrounded by royal symbols. Title-page and frontispiece lightly soiled and stained, small burn-hole to the blank margin of C2, some light foxing and staining throughout (more pronounced in the final gathering). Mid-19th-century calf, ruled in blind, with the gilt crest of on the front cover (corners and edges bumped and scratched). [London:] 1649. £300 Wing P 3491 (+;+). Consists of extracts from the Eikon Basilike and a defence of its royal authorship. Provenance: 1: Contemporary inscription on the back of the frontispiece “B[ought] of my Co:[usin]: Watkin” presumably Watkyn Wynn, of Wynnstay. 2. Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delemere (1767-1855), gilt crest on the front cover. He married Henrietta Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Sir Watkyn Williams Wynn of .

[80] CHAUCER (Geoffrey). The Works of our Ancient and Learned, & Excellent English Poet, Jeffrey Chaucer: As they have been lately Compar’d with the best manuscripts; and severall things, added, never before in Print. To which is adjoyn’d, The Story of the Siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate, Monk of Bury. Together with the Life of Chaucer, [...] Also a Table, wherein the Old and Obscure Words in Chaucer are explained [...]. Folio. [36], 660, [24] pp., engraved frontispiece. Black Letter. Some browning and light foxing throughout and with a small ink blot on Yy3 (touching two lines of text); fore-margin rather narrow. Early 19th-century calf (rebacked). London: 1687 £1100 Wing C3736 (+;+). Pforzheimer, 179. MAGGS BROS LTD 39

“This is the last black-letter edition and is, except for the then recently discovered conclusions of the Cook’s and Squire’s Tales, verso [4S2], a reprint of the 1602 edition without any additions” - Pforzheimer. Provenance: Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th & last Earl Cowper (1834-1905), of Panshanger, Hertforshire, with large armorial bookplate.

[81] [CHILD (Josiah)]. A New Discourse about Trade, Wherein the Reduction of Interest of Money to 4 l. per Centum, is recommended. Methods for the Employment and Maintenance of the Poor are proposed. Several weighty Points relating to Companies of Merchants. The Act of Navigation. Naturalization of Strangers. Our Woollen Manufactures. The Ballance of Trade. And the Nature of Plantations, and their Consequences in relation to the Kingdom, are seriously discussed. And some Arguments for erecting a Court of Merchants for determining Controversies, relating to Maritime Affairs, and for a Law for Transferrance of Bills of Debts, are humbly Offered. Never before Printed. First Edition. Small 8vo. [74], 37, [1], 208, 205-234 pp. with the initial license leaf A1 but lacking the errata leaf P8. Some occasional light soiling and ink markings to the blank margins throughout and the occasional headline shaved by the binder, lower fore-corners of the first few leaves chipped away. Modern quarter blue morocco and marbled boards. [London]: printed by A. Sowle, 1690 £1100 Wing C3853 (+ in UK; Chicago, Harvard, Library of Congress, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Library Company of Philadelphia, New York Public Library, Yale). The final 21 pages reprint Sir Thomas Culpeper’s A tract against usurie which was first published in 1621. In this work, among many things, Child advocates the reduction of interest rates in Britain from 6% to 4% “because low interest is the Natural Mother of Frugality, Industry and Arts” [vi] and in chapter 10, analyses the value and productivity of the American plantations. While Child’s contemporary and modern critics have pointed out that he often mistook causes for effects and did not look look for the deeper causes behind the economic phenomena that he observed, it has also been pointed out that Child did not eschew economic analysis altogether. “A rudimentary theory lurks behind his assertions that the measure of money in trade bore an exact proportion to the interest paid for money, or that there was a predictable, inverse correlation between the rate of interest and the price of land. He also had some insight into inter-regional trade theory. He was aware of Petty’s paradox that a such as Ireland could export a surplus and yet be poor because of transfers to absentee capitalists. He also grasped that high wages were a sign of prosperity, that wages and prices rose together and could act as a stimulus to growth. ... Child always assumed that human behaviour was governed by self-interest, and he was concerned that the public sector might flourish while private men failed. He attacked the apprenticeship and freedom requirements of English towns, and he thought that shopkeepers should be allowed into the overseas companies. But in no sense was he a liberal economist. He was a protectionist who supported the Navigation Acts and the monopolistic companies, who assumed that it was desirable to accumulate bullion, and who emphasized that trade was a form of warfare.” (ODNB).

[82] CHILD (Josiah) A New Discourse of Trade, wherein is Recommended several weighty Points relating to Companies of Merchants. The Act of Navigation. Naturalization of Srangers [sic]. And our Woolen Manufactures. The Ballance of Trade. And the Nature of Plantations, and their consequences in relation to the Kingdom, are seriously discussed. [...] Fourth Edition. 8vo., [48], 238 pp., with the final blank. Title-page heavily browned, following seven leaves less severely marked. Contemporary sheep, ruled in blind (rebacked, corners repaired, covers worn and the leather affected by damp, new endleaves). London: printed and sold by T. Sowle, 1698. £280 Wing C3862 (+;+). First published in 1690 as A discourse about trade and re-issued on numerous occasions throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. All editions include a reprint of “A Small Treatise against Usury” by Sir Thomas Culpeper with a separate title.

[83] CHILD (Josiah). [Another copy] Fourth Edition. 8vo., [48], 238 pp. Title-page heavily foxed, A1-2 ink splattered, occasional light foxing throughout, flyleaves stained by turn-ins. Contemporary calf; spine tooled in gilt and with a red morocco label “CHILDE ON. TRADE” in the second panel (upper joints just starting to split at the head). London: T. Sowle, 1698 £500 40 MAGGS BROS LTD

Wing C3862 (+;+). A much prettier copy, the title-page less browned. Provenance: James Reilly, signature in the upper blank margin of the title-page and a ?cost-code “xd.s” on the front flyleaf.

[84] CIVIL WAR. BRISTOL. A Copie of the Articles agreed upon at the surrender of the City of Bristol between Colonell , Governour of the said city, on the one Party and Colonell Charles Gerrard, and Captaine William Teringham, for, and on the behalfe of Prince Rupert, on the other party, the 26. of Iuly, 1643. With a Letter hereunto added, in which this Copie of Articles was Inclosed: wherein is manifested how well those perfidious have kept the said Articles; and may serve as a warrant to the whole Kingdome, how to trust againe the Faith of such Cavaliers. First Edition. Small 4to., 8 pp. Title-page very lightly foxed, but otherwise a good copy. Late 19th-century calf, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spine. London: for Henry Overton, [1643] £200 Wing C6203 (+; Folger, Huntington, Harvard, Illinois, Newberry, NYPL, Yale in USA). A facsimile of this was published, but not widely distributed, by JSC’s Toucan Press in ?1981. Provenance: 1: Arthur Annesley, later (1661) 1st Earl of , Irish landowner and politican, friend and protector of Milton and patron of Andrew Marvell, with his ink purchase note at the head of the title “AA August. 3. 1643. 3d”; he was the last President of the Commonwealth Council of State (25 Feb. to 31 May1660) and played a part in the Restoration of Charles II; for a copy of Milton’s Areopagitica with the ownership note “AA. novemb. 28. 1644. 4d” see Quaritch Catalogue 953 (1975), item 36 where the identification of Annesley is made. His library of 30,000 volumes, including a “vast Collection of Pamphlets of all sorts, containing all the remarkable Ones relating to Government, &c.”, was considered one of the finest in private hands in the country. It was sold at auction as the Bibliotheca Angleseiana in October 1686. 2: Francis Frederick Fox (1833-1915), of Yate House, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol historian and Alderman, with late 19th-century bookplate. 2. John E. Pritchard, auctioneer, of Bristol, with 20th-century bookplate at the end; Pritchard & Co. sold Fox’s library on 26-7/2/1930.

[85] CIVIL WAR. BRISTOL. RUPERT (Prince Palatine, of The Rhine). A Declaration of his Highnesse Prince Rupert. With a Narrative of the state and condition of the City and Garrison of Bristoll, when his Highnesse Prince Rupert came thither: of the actions there during the siege, of the Treaties, and rendition thereof. 4to., [2], 34 pp., uncut at fore-edge and tail, title browned, edges dusty, small rust spot on E3v and with fore-margin of E4 stained. Late 20th-century calf, ruled in gilt, by Salisbury Bookbinders (very light white scuff marks on front board and foot of spine) London: Edward Griffin, 1645 £200 Wing R2294 (+;+). Following the surrender of Bristol Prince Rupert gave this account of his conduct to the King and the Council of War at his court-martial at Newark on October 18th. 1645. With his brother Maurice he was cleared of treason but found guilty of indiscretion. “For them the war was over” - ODNB.

[86] CIVIL WAR. BRISTOL. RUSHWORTH (John). A True Relation of the Storming of Bristoll, and the taking the Town, Castle, Forts, Ordnance, Ammunition and Arms, by Sir ’s Army, on Thursday the 11. of this instant Septemb. 1645. Together with severall Articles between Prince Rupert, and Generall Fairfax, before the delivering up of the Castle. Sent in severall letters to the Honorable Esq; Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons, and read in the said House. First Edition. Small 4to., 24 pp. Title-page browned and foxed, some light spotting, closely trimmed in places but with no loss of text. Late 19th-century calf by Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow (joints and edges rubbed, covers discoloured). London: Edward Husband, 1645 £120 Wing R2336A (+;+). Late 19th-century portraits of Charles I, William Lenthall and George Lord Goring and a map of Bristol have been bound in. Provenance: Old bookseller’s advertisement affixed to one of the front flyleaves recording a price of thirty-eight shillings. MAGGS BROS LTD 41

[87] CIVIL WAR. Certain Observations upon the New League or Covenant, as it was explained by a Divine of the New Assemby, in a Congregation at London. Written and sent unto him in a Letter by some of his Auditors. With a copy of the said Covenant. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 52 pp., without the final blank. First gathering loose, C3-D4 dampstained and with a number of uncut leaves. Disbound. Bristoll: for Rich: Harsell, 1643 £100 Wing C1714 (+ in UK; Folger, Harvard, Huntington, New York Public Library and Yale in USA). The final section of the pamphlet contains the text of the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643.

[88] CIVIL WAR. CHARLES I. Three Speeches made by the Kings most Excellent Maiesty. The first to divers Lords and Colonels in His Majesties Tent, the second to His souldiers in the field; the third to his whole Army, immediately before the late Battell at Keinton neer Banbury. Wherein His Majesties resolutions are declared, being sent to Master Wallis in London, in a Letter from an eminent Gentleman, Colonell Weston, one of His Maiesties Commanders. First Edition. Small 4to., 8 pp., woodcut royal arms on title. Verso of final leaf slightly soiled, final leaf closely shaved along the lower edge (just touching the catchword on the recto). Disbound. London: for Rich. Johnson, [1642] £120 Wing C2825 (+;+). The was the first major battle of the Civil War but with an indecisive result. The Royalist cavalry under Prince Rupert and Wilmot broke both wings of the Parliamentary army and pursued them into the of Kineton [Keynton] leaving their own centre exposed and in serious trouble. At dusk both sides fell back but camped on the field so that neither could claim victory. The next day the Parliamentary army under Essex withdrew, claiming victory but their cavalry was in disorder, they had lost much equipment and were being constantly harrassed on their way by Rupert’s cavalry which blew up four ammunition wagons, forced them to abandon some cannons and leave the road to London open.

SEVEN TRACTS ON THE SIEGE OF COLCHESTER [89] CIVIL WAR. COLCHESTER. The Lord Goring, the Lord Capel, and Sir Charles Lucas their Letter, directed to the Lord General, and the Lord Fairfax his Letter directed unto them, concerning the City of Colchester. The taking of the Lord Goring’s Treasure going away by Sea, and four Colonels, with many other Officers, besides common souldiers taken prisoners. And a List of their Names; the Isle of Mersey taken, and a Line drawn about the Town. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 1, [5] pp. Lower fore-corner repaired and with a short worm-trail through the text and ink splash on the final leaf. Late 19th-century half calf and marbled boards; red edges (lightly rubbed). London: by B.A., 1648 £1100 Wing N1334 (British Library, Trinity College Cambridge, Worcester College Oxford only; no copy in North America). 42 MAGGS BROS LTD

The siege of Colchester in the summer of 1648 was a bloody affair. On its surrender Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Listle were immediately executed by firing squad, becoming Royalist martyrs. Lord Capel of Hadham was beheaded on 9 March 1649 in London. [Bound with]: 2. An exact Narrative of every dayes Proceedings since the Insurrection in Essex. Together with a more perfect List of what persons are slain and taken by both parties, till the 18 of June present, 1648. Also the resolution of the Councell of War concerning the manner of punishing the Prisoners they have taken in that County. First Edition. 8pp. Worm damage to lower fore-corner and lower edge repaired throughout. [London]: for Robert Bostock, June 20 1648. Wing E3663 (British Library, Worcester College Oxford in UK; W.A. Clark, Folger, Huntington, Union Theological Seminary in USA). 3. A great and bloudy Fight at Colchester, and the storming of the Town by the Lord Generals Forces with the manner how they were repulsed and beaten off, and forced to retreat from the Walls, and a great and terrible blow given at the said storm, by Granadoes and Gunpowder. Likewise their hanging out the Flag of defiance, and their sallying upon Tuesday last, all the chief Officers ingaging in the said Fight, and Sir Charles Lucas giving the first onset in the Van, with the number killed and taken, and Sir Charles Lucas his declaration. First Edition. [2], 6 pp., woodcut vignette on the title of a gunpowder explosion and the scattering of dismembered limbs. Repair to the lower edge of the first three leaves (last line of imprint cropped). London: for G. Beal, 1648. Wing G1633 (British Library [2 copies] only in UK; ; Huntington, Minnesota, Yale in USA). 4. Another Fight at Colchester, and the storming of the Town on Fryday night last, by the Parliaments Forces, and the successe thereof. Together with the proceedings of His Majesties loyall Subjects; in the of Northampton, Liececester [sic], and Rutland, touching their raising of sixe Regiments for the defence of King, Parliament, and Kingdome. Likewise, a great Fight in Scotland, between Duke Hamiltons Forces commanded by the earle of Kalender Lieutenant generall, and marquesse of Argyles Party, with the number slain and taken prisoners, the Lord Chancellors escape, and hundreds fled to the Mountains. Also, Duke Hamiltons Speech to the Estates of Scotland, concerning the advancing with his Army into England. First Edition. [2], 6 pp. Lower margin of the final leaf repaired. London: for G.W., 1648. Wing A3260 (British Library, Fairfax Collection [dispersed] in UK; Yale & Union Theological Seminary in USA). 5. Charles II. The declaration of His Highnesse the Prince of Wales, to Sir Marmaduke Langdale, Lieutenant Gen. of His majesties Forces in the North of England, under his Highnesse, Declaring his Resolution to use all possible means to redeeme his Father from Imprisonment, and to bring him to his Royall Palace at Whitehal; ... Likewise terrible Newes from Colchester, Declaring the Resolution of Gen. Lucas, and his forces, concerning the Lord Generalls preparations to storm the Town, and their providing of divers Barrells of Tarre and Pitch, with fires under the Wall, to throw it over in Frying-pans when they come to storm the Town. Also the Declaration of Derbyshire, concerning the Scots coming into England, and their raising of 11000. men to prosecute the same. [2], 6pp., woodcut Prince of Wales’s feathers on the title. Imprint cropped away, upper margins strengthened. [London: or [sic] G.H. 1648. Wing C2973 (British Library, Bodley, Fairfax Collection [dispersed], University College London in UK; Yale only in North America). 6. FAIRFAX (Thomas, Lord). A Letter from his Excellency the Lord Fairfax Generall of the Parliaments forces: concerning the surrender of Colchester, the Grounds and reasons of putting to death Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lysle; with the Articles and Explanation of the same. Together with a List of all the Prisoners taken, their numbers and qualities therein exprest. Read in the House of Peeres upon the 31 of Aug. 1648. [2], 6 pp. Very small worm-trail at the head and foot of each leaf. London: John Wright, 1648. Wing F181 (+ in UK; Folger, Harvard, Huntington & Yale in USA). 7. I. (C.). The Copy of a Letter sent from a person of much Honour and Reason, accidentally present at that hot encounter betwixt the Forces under the Command of the Lord Goring, Earle of Norwich, and Sir Charles Lucas of the Royall Party. And those under the command of the Lord Fairfax of the Parliaments party, on the 13. of Iune, in the Suburbs of Colchester. [2], 6 pp. [London:] in the yeare, 1648. Wing I2 (British Library, Bodley, London Library, London School of Economics, Worcester College Oxford, Sheffield University; W.A. Clark, Folger & Yale in USA). Provenance: 1: Charles Clark (1806-1880), of Great Totham Hall, Essex, eccentric and antiquary, known as the Bard of Totham, with verse bookplate printed in red and dated 1863 on the verso of the title of (3). 2: Arthur Dalrymple, F.S.A., with late 19th-century armorial bookplate.

[90] CIVIL WAR. A Letter sent from a private gentleman to , in justification of his owne adhereing to His Majestie in these times of distraction: with arguments induceing him thereunto, both from the Law of God and Man. Small 4to., 8pp. Early 20th-century quarter morocco. London: for V.N. Ann. Dom. 1642. £120 Wing F1A (+;+). One of three printings. The first edition, printed at Oxford, is signed “F”. The anonymous author states that he will “judge no man, I leave every one to himself to stand or fall” (2). Provenance: Cooper family, Markree Castle, Co. Sligo, Ireland, with bookplate “Markree Library. Re-arranged in 1913 by Bryan Cooper”.

[91] CIVIL WAR. A Narration of the great Victory, (through Gods Providence) obtained by the Parliaments Forces under Sir William Waller at Alton in the 13. of this instant December, 1643. Against the cavaliers: where were taken neer a thousand Prisoners, a thousand Arms, two hundred Horse, with Divers Officers of great quality. ... MAGGS BROS LTD 43

First Edition. Small 4to, 8 pp. Very lightly browned and closely trimmed along the upper margin. Late 19th-century half calf and marbled boards. [London]: for Edw. Husbands, Dec. 16.[1643] £200 Wing N159 (British Library, Bodleian and Senate House in UK; Harvard, New York Public Library, Folger & Yale in USA). An account of Waller’s victory at Alton (now in Hampshire) on 13 December 1643. Waller took the Royalist troops under Lord Crawford by surprise. Crawford and most of his cavalry escaped but over 700 Royalist soldiers were captured.

[92] CIVIL WAR. PARLIAMENT. A Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, With their Resolution. That if Captaine Catesby, Captaine Lilborne, Captaine Vivers, or any others, which are or shall be taken Prisoners, by his Majesties Army shall be put to death, or any other hurt or Violence offered to their Persons, for their faithfull endeavours in the Parliaments service, the like punishment shall be inflicted by death, or otherwise, upon such Prisoners, as have bin or shall bee taken by the forces raised by authority of both Houses of Parliament. Also that if Judge Heath, or any other Minister of Iustice shall doe contrary to this , they for so doing shall be proceeded against, and dealt with, as enemies to the King and Kingdome. First Edition. Small 4to. 8 pp. Nasty mark along the inner margin of the title where a cloth backing has been removed; last leaf stained with a white blob obscuring parts of two words; type ornament border at the foot of the title shaved. Disbound. [London:] Decemb. 19. Printed for John Wright, 1642 £150 Wing E1488 (+;+). An important case which established an equitable system for dealing with prisoners which (largely) held through the Civil War. The future Leveller John Lilburne “fought at Edgehill on 23 October [1642]. On 12 November he defended Brentford with distinction, was captured, and sent to the royalist headquarters in Oxford as a prisoner. The royalists planned that he and other prisoners should be tried for treason, but they were saved from trial when the House of Commons declared on 17 December 1642 that it would administer lex talionis [the law of retribution - basically, an eye for an eye] on Parliament’s prisoners should those in Oxford be sentenced. Elizabeth Lilburne bravely delivered the message from London to Oxford, and in May 1643 her husband was exchanged by the royalists for prisoners in parliament’s hands.” - ODNB. Provenance: Sidney Russell, of Fairway, Gorway Road, Walsall, circa 1936, paginated in green ink [see the pamphlet by Arnold Boate].

PRESSING OF SAILORS [93] CIVIL WAR. PARLIAMENT. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament; for the better Raising, Leavying, and Impresting of Mariners Saylers, and others: For the present Guarding of the seas, and neccessary Defence of the Realm, and other His Majesties Dominions. Small 4to., 7, [1] pp. Browned. Early 20th-century half blue roan and marbled boards (slightly rubbed). [London]: for L. Blaiklock. Ian. 15, [1643/4] £180 Wing E1948 (British Library, Bodley, Trinity College Dublin, Fairfax Collection (dispersed) in UK; Harvard & Yale in USA). Wing E1947B (Parliamentary Archives, John Rylands Library, Duke University & Folger), is another edition dated a day earlier. An ordinance stating that any “Marriner, Sayler, Waterman, Chirurgeon, Gunner, Ship-Carpenter, Cauker, Whoyman, or Carman” must be willing to offer their services in defence of the realm or face three months imprisonment.

[94] CIVIL WAR. PETERS (Hugh). Gods Doings, and Mans Duty, opened in a Sermon preached before both Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major and Aldermen of the , and the Assembly of divines; at the last Thanksgiving day, April 2. For the recovering of the West, and disbanding 5000 of the Kings horse, &c. 1645. By Hugh Peters preacher of the Gospel. The second edition, corrected by the author. Second Edition. Small 4to., [14 (1st leaf imprimatur)], 42 pp. Dark ink spot along the upper margin of the first few leaves, small rust spot in the fore-margin of A2, slight foxing to B1-C1, several leaves uncut and with the lower edge of D1 printed very close 44 MAGGS BROS LTD to the edge (affecting the catchword on the recto). Mid-20th-century half calf and marbled boards. London: M. S[immons]. for G. Calvert,1646 £120 Wing P1704 (+;+). Provenance: JSC’s bookplate and “Cx” cipher and a few pencil notes on the flyleaf.

[95] CIVIL WAR. The Royal Martyrs: or, a List of the Lords, Knights, Officers, and Gentlemen, that were slain (by the Rebels) in the late Wars, in defence of their King and Country. As, also of those Executed by their High Courts of (in)-Justice, or Law-Martial. Second Edition (first published as a broadside in 1660). Small 4to., [4], 14 pp., without the final blank leaf. Very lightly browned throughout and with a small damp spot on [A]2 (touching one line of text). Mid-20th-century red morocco. London: by H[enry].L[loyd]. and are to be sold by H. Marsh, 1663 £150 Wing R2135 (+;+). A list of almost five hundred noblemen killed during the Civil War, preceded by an elegy. The inventory is organised by rank and also records the place of death of each man lost.

[96] CIVIL WAR. “Rr.” The Armies Remembrancer. Wherein they are presented with a Sight of their Sinnes and Dangers. And also with a Scripture Expedient for their Preservation. By a cordiall friend to the kingdomes welfare. Rr. First Edition. Small 4to., [6], 34 pp. Title-page slightly soiled and with the remnants of a small circular sticker in the upper inner margin (affecting the type ornament frame), closely trimmed along the lower edge throughout (touching catchwords and signatures in places), some occasional light foxing. Early 19th-century half green morocco and marbled boards (covers rubbed and corners bumped). London: for Stephen Bowtell, 1649 £100 Wing R2166 (+;+). An anonymous pamphlet signed “Rr” by a Presbyterian writer which refuted a number of publications, also printed in 1649, which praised the actions of the Parliamentarian military leaders and supported Pride’s Purge.

[97] CIVIL WAR. SOMERSET. A Letter sent to the Right Honourable William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker to the Honourable House of Commons: Concerning the Routing of Col: Gorings Army near Bridgewater. With a list of the names of the Officers that were taken prisoners at Langport. By a worthy Gentleman in Sir Tho: Fairfax his Army. Published by Authority. First Edition. Small 4to., 8pp. An uncut copy (upper edge unopened), verso of the final leaf a little soiled. Disbound. London: for John Field, Iuly 22. 1645 £150 Wing L1626 (British Library [2 copies], Bodley and Bristol Central Library in UK; Folger & Harvard in USA). An account of the situation after the defeat of George Goring’s royalist army by the under Fairfax and Cromwell at the battle of Langport on 9 July 1645. Provided at the end is a list of the “officers, prisoners of war taken”.

[98] CIVIL WAR. SOMERSET. A True Relation of the great and glorious Victory through Gods providence, obtained by Sir William Waller, Sir Arthur Haslerig, and others of the Parliament Forces: Against the Marquesse Hartford, Prince Maurice, Sir Ralph Hopton, and others. Together with the Names of what persons of quality were Killed and Taken on both sides: ... First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 4, [2] pp. Some catchwords and final line of text trimmed. Early 20th-century half maroon morocco and cloth boards (covers dampstained). MAGGS BROS LTD 45

London: for Edward Husbands. July 14. 1643 £150

Wing T2958 (+;+). An account of the indecisive Battle of Lansdowne near Bath (5 July) and events leading up to the Battle of Roundway Down near Devizes in Wiltshire, the greatest cavalry success of the Civil War and a resounding victory for the Royalist forces, although here the news of the final battle has not yet reached Parliament.

[99] CIVIL WAR. [VICARS (John)]. Former Ages Never Heard Of, and After Ages will Admire. Or, a Brief Review of the most Materiall Parliamentary Transactions, beginning, November 3. 1640. Wherein the Remarkable Passages both of their Civill and Martiall Affaires, are continued unto this present Year. Published as a Breviary, leading all along successively, as they fell out in their severall years: [...] A Work worthy to be kept in Record, and communicated to Posterity. Third Edition. Small 4to., [2], 61, [1] pp., 13 engraved illustrations in the text. Fore-margin of the title renewed, and upper blank corner of A2 repaired, a little soiled throughout, a stain in the centre of C3-4, lower inner margin browned and with heavy foxing to H3-4. Late 19th-century calf, gilt edges (joints rubbed). London: by M.S[immons]. for Thomas Jenner,1656 £375 Wing V306 (+;+). The crude engravings depicting the events of the Civil War from the 1637 Prayer-Book riot in Edinburgh cathedral, the execution of the King, and the dissolving of the . The first edition was published under the title A brief review of the most material parliamentary procedures. (1652) and under this title in 1654 and 1660.

[100] CLARKE (Samuel). A True, and Faithful Account Of The Four Chiefest Plantations of the English in America. Small Folio, 85, [1] pp. Occasional light browning and soiling, blank fore-margin of 7A2 stained. Contemporary calf (rebacked, recornered and with new endpapers). London: for Robert Clavel, Thomas Passenger, William Cadman, William Whitwood, Thomas Sawbridge, and William Birch, 1670. £250 Issued as part of A Geographicall Description of all the countries in the known world (1671; Wing C4517). This extract includes descriptions of Virginia, New-England, and Barbados.

[101] CLEVELAND (John). Clievelandi Vindiciæ; or Cleveland’s Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, &c. Purged from the many False and Spurious ones which had usurped his Name, and from innumerable Errours and Corruptions in the true Copies. To which are added many Additions never Printed before: With an Account of the Author’s life. Published according to the Author’s own Copies. 8vo., [24], 239, [1] pp., engraved portrait (small piece missing from the lower margin). Tear to lower inner margin of L2, light worming to lower fore-corner between a1-N1, and with minor spotting and damp staining in places. Late 19th-century mottled calf (rebacked, corners repaired, new endpapers). London: for Obadiah Blagrave,1677 £150 Wing C4670 (+;+). One of three issues for different booksellers. 46 MAGGS BROS LTD

[102] CLEVELAND (John). The Idol of the Clownes, or Insurrection of Wat the Tyler, with his Priests Baal and Straw; together with his fellow Kings of the Commons, against the English Church, the King, the Laws, Nobility, and Royal Family and Gentry, in the fourth year of K. Richard the 2d. 1381. Second Edition. Small 8vo., [12], 154 pp., without the engraved portrait found in some copies and without the final blank. Light dampstaining to the first few leaves, closely shaved at the head (just touching the pagination in places). Early 19th- century calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges and endpapers (small stain on the front cover and a minor repair on the rear; old front flyleaf preserved). London: in the Year, 1654 £200 Wing C4673 (+;+). An historical account of the Peasants’ Revolt, intended as an analogue for the Civil War. Provenance: 1: The old preserved front flyleaf has a late 17th/early 18th-century century inscription “Thomas Browne / his Booke”. Not the signature of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), the famous physician and author as previously believed. Although Browne had an extensive library (sold in 1711) only a handfull of volumes belonging to him have been identified and none of those has his signature, which is quite distinctly different to the signature in the present volume in any case. 2: Late 19th/early 20th-century catalogue cutting on the front pastedown “With the autograph of Sir Thomas Brown, author of Pseudodoxia Epidemica on the front pastedown. 3: Myers & Co., with small black and gilt label on the front pastedown and early 20th-century catalogue cutting, item 74, £4/4/-, loosely inserted. 4: Albert M. Cohn, collector and bibliographer of George Cruikshank, with his large (unattractive) bookplate; posthumous sale, Christie, 26/2/1934, lot 176 [as Sir Thomas Browne’s copy], £5 to Charles H. Stonehill.

[103] COKE (Roger). A Treatise wherein is demonstrated that the Church and State of England, are in equal danger with the trade of it. Treatise I. [- Reasons of the Increase of the Dutch Trade. Wherein is demonstrated from what Causes the Dutch Govern and Manage Trade better than the English; whereby they have so far improved their Trade above the English. First Edition. Small 4to., [28], 90, [91-104], 105-151, [1] pp., second section has a separate title-page. Two small worm holes in the blank corner of A1-3 reducing to a single hole A4-B2, occasionally closely shaved along the upper edge, large ink blot in the centre of A2v-A3r. Contemporary sprinkled sheep (rebacked, lower corner of rear board heavily bumped). London: by J.C. for Henry Brome, 1671 £700 Wing C4984A (+;+). Coke attempts, in a quasi-mathematical manner of axioms (to which are appended lengthy annotations), to state out his economic views on English and Dutch commerce. There is much discussion of the American plantations, of Ireland (post-Drogheda and with particular reference to the cattle trade) and of the West Indies and the effects of colonisation and imports of all manner of goods upon England and its economy. In the second half the Dutch economy, with its greater degree of freedom, its greater internal strength and the greater degree of economic awareness in the merchant community, is contrasted with the English to the discredit of the latter.

[104] COLES (Elisha). An English Dictionary explaining the difficult Terms that are used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Philosophy, Law, Navigation, Mathematicks, and other Arts and Sciences. Containing many Thousands of Hard Words (and Proper Names and Places) more than are in any other English Dictionary or Expositor. Together with the Etymological Derivation of them from their Proper Fountains, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or any other language. In a Method more Comprehensive than any that is Extant. Sixth Edition. 8vo., [372] pp. Title-page lightly soiled and with the margins browned by the turn-ins, single wormhole to A1-B1, H1-L1 and a short worm-trail to Z6-2A3, minor ink staining to Q6 and 2C2-4, lower edge of H1 a little ragged, and with a small spider neatly pressed between R3-4, cut fairly close at the head. Contemporary calf, ruled in blind (spine creased, upper headcap split and a short crack at the head of the upper joint, small hole in the foot of the spine, corners and edges worn; no pastedowns, rear flyleaf only). London: for Peter Parker, 1696 £500 MAGGS BROS LTD 47

Wing C5075 (+;+). Coles’s hugely successful dictionary was first published in 1676 with the hope that by including slang and street vocabulary the work might “chance to save your throat being cut, or (at least) your pocket from being pick’d” (A3r). Also included is a table of measures and a concise list of words “whose sound is the same, but their sense and orthography very different” (A3v). Provenance: William Cheyney, perhaps the 2nd Viscount Newhaven (1657-1728), politician, with ink inscription on the title “William Cheyney Ejus Liber”; a longer inscription in the same hand on the verso of the final flyleaf reads: “For tis more easy to count the stars in the sky / or with a Nut Shell drane the oceans dry / than is to appear upon this Publick Stage / and Please the Carping Zoilits [Zealots] of our / age.”

[105] COLES (Elisha, junior). Christologia. Or a Metrical Paraphrase on the History of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Dedicated to His Universal Church. First Edition. 8vo, [124] pp., without the first blank leaf. Light browning, particularly in the margins; the words “OR A” on the title deleted with ink and replaced with “a” in later manuscript; closely shaved at the head. Mid-20th-century blue quarter morocco and marbled boards. London: for Peter Parker, 1671. £240 Wing C5067 (British Library, Trinity College Cambridge, National Library of Scotland, National Trust [Belton House], Magdalen College Oxford in UK; Harvard, Illinois, & Newberry in USA). ESTC mistakenly records the pagination as being [156] but correctly indicates that the collation is A-H8. A verse harmony of the Four Gospels with four columns of Gospel references in the outer margins. Also re-issued as The Harmony of the Four Evangelists (1679; Wing C5076) and The History of the Life and Death of our Lord (1680; with plates; Wing C5077). ODNB has three Elisha Coles; this is the lexicographer, stenographer and schoolmaster (c. 1640-80). Provenance: 1: Lewis Caesar Hill, inscribed “Lewis Caesar Hill comm[oner] e Coll. Jesu Oxon” at head of the title; Lewis Hill matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford on 19 March 1691/2. 2: George R. Hales, with 19th-century signature on the title. 3: R. Betts, with signature dated “Silverhill. 15-1-[18]90”, at the head of A2. 4: Gerald P. Mander (d. 1951), of Tettenhall Wood, Staffordshire, historian of Wolverhampton, with his book-label.

[106] COLLIER (Jeremy). Essays upon several Moral Subjects. In two parts. Part the first. I. Upon pride. II. Upon cloaths. III. Upon duelling. IV. Upon general kindness. V. Upon the office of a chaplain. VI. Upon the weakness of human reason. “Second edition corrected and much enlarged”. 8vo., [6], 222, [4], 188 pp.. Small piece torn from B8 with loss to 3 words, small hole to C8 with loss of a letter or two, some occasional light foxing and staining. Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners repaired). London: for R. Sare, and H. Hindmarsh, 1697 £120 Wing C5253 (+;+). Part 2, which has a separate title-page and signatures, is a reissue of the first edition of 1695 (Wing C5257) not the reprint that ESTC calls for with [8], 190, [2 (advertisments).]pp.

[107] COLLIER (Jeremy). A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage: Together with The Sense of Antiquity Upon this Argument. Second Edition. 8vo, [16], 288 pp. Light dampstain to the blank fore-margin of sheet E, two tears to the blank margins of E7 and E8 (just touching a sidenote or two), light worming to the blank lower right corner of T4-T8, some discoloration due to poor paper quality. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, spine tooled in gilt and with a red morocco label (covers lightly scuffed). London: for S. Keble, R. Sare, and H. Hindmarch, 1698 £350 Wing C5264 (+;+). This is the true second edition of Collier’s work as distinguished from a reissue of the sheets of the first edition with a cancel title-page. The former is distinguished from the latter by the presence of the catchword ‘thought’ on A2 indicating tha the type has been reset. “Collier claimed in A Short View that his objections were not to the theatre itself, but to particular practical matters of behaviour, such as obscene language, oaths, 48 MAGGS BROS LTD

blasphemy, and sexual innuendo. He regarded these as corrupting, whether or not they were actually intended to corrupt, although he implied that there was malicious intent in many cases. Each chapter dealt with a particular concern: the first was headed “The immodesty of the stage”, the second, “The profaneness of the stage”, the third “The clergy abused by the stage”, and the fourth “The stage-poets make their principal persons vicious and reward them at the end of the play”. About all these matters of social and religious observance he went into great detail, quoting multiple examples from many contemporary plays to illustrate the various offences about which he complained, and here and there excusing himself from giving chapter and verse because of the ‘smuttiness’ of the language used in that particular passage” (ODNB). Provenance: JSC’s bookplate on the front pastedown.

[108] COLVIL (Samuel). Whiggs Supplication. A Mock-Poem in Two Parts. By S.C. Second Edition. 8vo., [10], 118pp. Very small chip from the upper fore-corner and with four minor circular stains on the title- page, some occasional staining throughout, damp-staining just touching the corners of F4-F6, some heavy modern pencil markings in a number of the margins (E1, E5v and E8r), and with a number of the gatherings beginning to come loose from the book-block. Contemporary sheep (worn, large piece torn away from the foot of the spine and with the upper headcap damaged, boards heavily rubbed and corners bumped). Edinburgh: by Jo. Reid, for Alexander Ogston, 1687 £150 Wing C5426 (+;+). An imitation of Samuel Butler’s satirical polemic, Hudibras. Having ciruclated widely in manuscript this satirical poem was published in 1681 and republished on a number of other occasions under titles such as The Scotch Hudibras and A Mock Poem. Provenance: 1: “Geo[rge]: Dundas”, early signatures on the verso of the rear flyleaf. 2: Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895), poet and notable book collector, owner of the “Rowfant Library”, with the Locker bookplate. 3: Given by Godfrey Locker-Lampson (1875-1946) to Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), the Bloomsbury Group author with inscription “Godfrey L-L to Lytton”.

[109] COLVIL (Samuel). Whiggs Supplication, a Mock-Poem in Two Parts. By Sam. Colvil. 8vo., [10], 118 pp. Lightly browned throughout, very small close tear to the upper margin of the title-page (not touching text), first and last leaves heavily stained by the turn-ins, slightly lower edge of D2 uncut, and with some light spotting to H6. Contemporary sprinkled sheep (joints split at head and tail, rubbed and bumped; no pastedowns). Edinburgh: in the Year,1695 £100 Wing C5429 (+ in UK; Huntington, Harvard, Folger & Newberry in USA). Provenance: Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (1641-1724), of Scotland, no bookplate but with three early library shelfmarks (one on a label) on the flyleaf.

[110] COMBER (Thomas). The Occasional Offices of Matrimony, Visitation of the Sick, Burial of the Dead, Churching of Women, and the Commination explained in the Method of the Companion to the Temple: Being the Fourth and Last Part. 8vo., [16], 384, (384)-(385), 385-580, [2 (errata)] pp. Damp staining to the fore-margin of Q2-Z4 and lower fore-corner Ff1- Kk8. Contemporary black morocco “semi-sombre” binding, the covers finely tooled with a double gilt fillet containing blind-tooled fronds, sequins and daisies, a central gilt panel with a vase and flower tool at each corner and containing further blind tooling and a central lozenge; spine in six panels, tooled in gilt with a red morocco label in the second panel; gilt edges and marbled endleaves; early 20th-century marbled slipcase (slight worm damage at the foot of the spine, slightly rubbed, corners very lightly bumped). London: by M.C. for Henry Brome and Robert Clavel,1679 £550 Wing C5480 (+;+). MAGGS BROS LTD 49

[111] [COMPTON (Hon. Henry), translator]. The Jesuites Intrigues: with the private instructions of that Society to Their Emissaries. The First, Translated out of a Book privately printed at . The Second, lately found in Manuscript in a Jesuites Closet, after his Death. Both sent with a Letter from a Gentleman at Paris, to his Friend in London. First Edition. Small 4to., [14], 62, [2 (blank)] pp. Title-page browned and frayed at the head, and with a few ink spots, inner margin dampstained throughout (not affecting text), and with occasional spotting to B1, E2 and F1, small piece missing from upper margin of D2 and with soiling and damage to corners of I1-2. Mid-20th-century quarter mauve morocco and marbled boards (boards sunned and with slight worm damage to the foot of spine). London: for Benjamin Tooke,1669 £120 Wing J717 (+;+) A translation of a typically scaremongering tract highlighting Compton, the future Bishop of London’s profound “absorption with anti-Catholicism” (ODNB). ODNB attributes the original to Fulgentio Micanzio, who wrote a life of Paolo Sarpi, but ESTC says the original has not been traced. The final section ‘The Jesuites private instructions’ (E1-I3) purports to be written by a Jesuit answering questions which have in fact all the hallmarks of anti- Catholic propaganda and is translated from the Monita secreta Societatis Jesu of Hieronim Zahorowski. Provenance: 1: Early ink number “9” in the fore-margin of each leaf. 2. A small library shelf-label “1846/271.5” on the verso of the final printer’s blank.

[112] The Conspiracy of Aeneas & Antenor against the State of Troy. A Poem. First Edition. Small 4to., 20 pp. Title-page and recto of B3 lightly soiled, lower margins uncut. Late 19th-century half calf and marbled boards (foot of spine lightly chipped, one or two bumps to the top edge of both boards). London: for John Spicer, 1682 £450 Wing C5933 (+;+). An anonymous satire on the Duke of York, afterwards King James II and Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. Narcissus Luttrell has dated his copy of the work 15 August 1682. “York and Shaftesbury seem represented by the titular conspirators ... They in fact represent different kinds of treachery: Antenor seeks to destroy the state by fomenting internal discord, Aeneas by collaborating with external enemies. The poem was probably written or at least completed within the three months preceding its publication, the terminus a quo being set by its reference to the absorbtion of the King’s Company [of actors] by the Duke’s, which became effective on 13 May 1682” (Roper, Alan. “Absalom’s Issue: Parallel Poems in the Restoration” Studies in Philology, vol. 99, no. 3, p. 271). Provenance: James J. Bell, early 20th-century signature on the endpaper.

[113] COOK or COOKE (John), of Gray’s Inn. Redintegratio Amoris, or a Union of Hearts, between the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons in Parliament, His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Army Under his Command; the Assembly, and every honest man that desires a sound and durable Peace, accompanied with speedy Justice and Piety. By way of respective Apologies, so far as Scripture and Reason may be Judges. First Edition. Small 4to., [6], 86 pp., without the first and final blank leaves. Dark circular damp stain (45 x 25mm) in the upper fore-corner of the title page (from a deleted signature), some spotting and browning throughout and with a small (15mm) closed tear to the margin of F2, some minor worming in the inner margin, dampstain in the top margin at the end. Late 19th-century calf, covers panelled in blind, red edges (spine defective at the head and tail, corners bumped). London: for Giles Calvert, [1647] £350 Wing C6026 (+,+). The author describes himself on the title as a barrister of Gray’s Inn but he is better known as a judge and one of the . Indeed he was Charles I’s prosecutor and drafted the indictment, and as such was expressly excluded from any indemnity afforded to regicides and others. He was executed in October 1660, having ably defended himself at his trial. In this pamphlet, one of several he wrote, he “argued that the army alone could secure liberty of conscience and reform the courts of justice, both preconditions of a peaceful settlement” (ODNB). Provenance: Rev. Richard Grosvenor Bartelot, FSA, antiquary and vicar of Fordington St George, Dorset, with signature on the front flyleaf. An earlier signature has been deleted from the title-page. 50 MAGGS BROS LTD

[114] COOKE (James, surgeon). Mellificium Chirurgiae. Or the Marrow of Many good Authours. Wherein is briefly and faithfully handled the Art of Chyrurgery, in its foure parts, with all the severall diseases unto them belonging. Their Definitions, Causes, Signes, Prognosticks, and Cures, both generall, and particular. As also an Appendix, wherein is methodically set down, the Cure of those affects usually happening at Sea, and in Campe, with others neccessary to be known. And lastly, an Addition of severall Magistrall Receipts, approved, & heretofore kept secret. Gathered first for private use, and now put forth for publique benefit, by James Cooke Lover of Physick and Chyrurgery. First Edition. 12mo., [24 (first leaf with imprimatur on verso)], 478 pp. Upper fore-corners of B6-7 and P5 torn from paper flaws (affecting rule border but not touching text), some worming in the inner margin (heavily between Q5-R11). Contemporary sheep, ruled in blind (rubbed, 30mm piece torn at the head of spine, a number of loose gatherings, bumped and rubbed, pastedowns unstuck). London: for Samuel Cartwright, 1648 £750 Wing C6012 (+ in UK; UC-Medical, Columbia-Medical, Countway Library of Medicine, Minnesota, US National Library of Medicine, Yale Medical in USA). First edition of a popular medical handbook, regularly reprinted until 1717. Cooke, a surgeon in Warwick, states that the book was originally intended as a common-place book of texts from published sources interspersed with his personal comments for his private use but now “put forth for publique benefit”. The work draws together numerous medical complaints from everyday ailments through to cancerous tumours, ulcers and wounds. Provenance: 1: Early ink initials “E K” on the front flyleaf. 2: “Isaac Webster / Hull”, ?late 18th-century signature inside the front cover. 2: Isaac Raines, M.D. (1778-1846), apothecary and surgeon, of Graysgarth House, Burton Pidsea, in Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, near Hull, with signature on the title “Isaac Raines 1802”; by descent to Rev. George Francis Twycross-Raines, vicar and antiquary, of Hull, with ink inscription on the front flyleaf “H. Page from his old friend G. F. Twycross-Raines Sept. 11, 1911”.

[115] COOLE (Benjamin). Honesty the Truest Policy, Shewing the Sophistry, Envy and Perversion of George Keith, in his Three Books, (viz) his Bristol Quakerism, Bristol Narrative and his Deism. First Edition. Small 8vo., [2], 166 [i.e. 128] pp. Very small stain in the inner margin of A8-B4. 19th-century half red calf and marbled boards. [?Bristol: by W. Bonny]: for the Author, 1700 £200 Wing C6046 (+;+). One of many attacks on George Keith at a time of unprecedented levels of controversy within the Quaker community. The schism between Keith and his fellow Quakers began in America and led to him and his followers dividing from the rest of the congregation and styling themselves as “Christian Quakers”. In 1700 Keith was ordained deacon of London, an act of conformity that “stunned” the English public. See ODNB. A pencil note by JSC states “printed by W. Bonny, Bristol”. ESTC gives London as the place of printing but JSC’s extensive knowledge of and collection of Bristol printing should give him the advantage - and Coole was a merchant in the city. Provenance: R. G. Pittard, early 20th-century label and ink stamp of George’s bookshop in Bristol.

[116] CORBET (Richard, Bishop of Norwich). Poems. Third Edition. 12mo., [10], 138, [6 (advertisements)] pp., without the first blank leaf, woodcut publisher’s device of a dragon on the title. Some spotting on the title-page, wormed at the head up to p. 28 then declining to a single tiny pin-hole, affecting the headlines (repaired on the first six leaves); closely shaved (touching some headlines and catchwords); the fore-margin of A6 (the Table) unevenly trimmed with slight loss on the recto). Early 20th-century brown morocco, tooled in blind, by Riviere. London: by J.C. for William Crook, 1672 £240 Wing C6271 (+;+). Includes his most famous poem “Iter boreale” and an epitaph on “Doctor Donne, of Pauls” (42). MAGGS BROS LTD 51

[117] COTTON (Charles). The Wonders of the Peake. Third Edition. 8vo, [4], 86 pp., engraved vignette of a cannon on the title. First sheet browned, the rest less so with some spotting, A6 with two holes from paper flaws (affecting a few letters), the red sprinkled edges have occasionally spread onto the leaf and, a number of lower edges uncut. Contemporary sheep (small worm-trail to the front board and a large scuff on the rear board, lower joint split at the head, pastedowns unstuck). London: W. Everingham and Tho. Whitledge,1694 £300 Wing Q179 (+;+). A nostalgic poem in praise of the Peak , including a long description of Chatsworth at the end and dedicated to the Countess of Devonshire. Provenance: 1: Lady Anne Coventry, signature “A. Coventrye” on the front flyleaf. Lady Anne Somerset (1673-1763), was the 3rd surviving daughter of the 1st Duke of Beaufort. In 1691 she married the Hon. Thomas Coventry (d. 1710), later (1699), 2nd Earl of Coventry. Their only child died young. Gloucestershire County Archive holds on deposit from the Duke of Beaufort from Badminton House several manuscript catalogues of books belonging Lady Anne Coventry dated 1704-08. 2: Dukes of Beaufort, Badminton House, with shelfmarks “b. 41” (crossed-through four times) and “C. d = 11.” inside the front cover.

“I SING THE MAN, (READ IT WHO LIST, / A TROJAN, TRUE AS EVER PIST)” [118] COTTON (Charles). Scarronnides: Or, Virgile Travestie. A Mock-Poem, On the First and Fourth Books of Virgils Aeneis in English, Burlesque. [- Scarronnides: or, Virgile Travestie. A Mock-Poem. In imitation of the Fourth Book of Virgil’s Aeneis in English, Burlesque.] Reprint of Book 1, First Edition of Book 4. 8vo, [4], 67, [1 (advertisement) pp., first and last leaves blank except for the bookseller’s woodcut device of a crowned cannon; [6], 153, 155-156, [3] pp.. Long closed tear from a paper flaw down D5 (touching seven lines of text, small spot at the head of E1. Contemporary sheep ruled in blind, smooth spine with a red morocco and gilt label; no pastedowns, parts of two printed leaves from a 17th-century English 8vo Bible as binder’s waste (lower headcap torn, joints a little rubbed). London: by E. Cotes for Henry Brome, 1666 [- 1665] £700 Wing C6392A (Bodley & University of Illinois only). However, both are reported by ESTC as “not found in collections and are not in either institution’s online catalogue. A combined issue (with joint title) of a reprint of the first book (first published in 1664) with the first edition of the fourth book (Wing C6392, +;+). Provenance: Rev. Hon. Shute Barrington (1734-1826), Bishop of Salisbury 1782-91 and Durham 1791-1826, with armorial bookplate.

THE LOVEDAY COPY [119] COWLEY (Abraham). Poemata Latina. In quibus Continentur, Sex Libri Plantarum, Viz. Duo: Herbarum. Florum. Sylvarum. Et Unus Miscellaneorum. First Collected Edition. 8vo. [17]ff, 288, 293-420 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait by Faithorne. Small hole to the blank inner gutter of O1-O4, some occasional light soiling. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, red morocco label to spine (half of the label has perished). London: T. Roycroft, Impensis Jo. Martyn, 1668 £240 Wing C.6680. Perkin, Cowley, A29. Pforzheimer 232. This is the first collected edition of Cowley’s Latin poems. The first two books of his work on plants were originally published in 1662, and this is the first printing of the remaining four books. The miscellaneous poems are for the most part Latin versions of English poems published in The Works, 1668. It was edited by Thomas Sprat and includes an account of Cowley’s life and writing in Latin, which is a shorter and different version of the English account prefixed to The Works. “Cowley’s Latin poems were his special pride. There is some justification for this partiality for, if not great in subject matter, they are at least good easy verse.... This edition, printed on thick paper, is an example of the best presswork of the time”. – Pforzheimer. 52 MAGGS BROS LTD

Provenance: 1: Benjamin Spann, contemporary signature to the title-page “Ex lib[ris] Ben: Spann” and additional signature, “Benjamin Spann” to the rear flyleaf. 2: Richard Inett, contemporary signature to the title-page and inscription “E[x] libris Rich: Inett ex dono amicissimi Benjam[in] Spann” to the verso of the title-page. 3: John Leslie, contemporary signature on title, with a four page index seemingly in Leslie’s hand to the front free endpapers. 4: Early 18th-century auction or fixed price lot number. 4: John Loveday (1711-89), antiquary and traveller, with his acquisition note “1707. p. 4:0.”. He has also provided the page numbers for the various sections of the work listed on the title-page. By descent in the Loveday family library at Williamscote, Banbury, ; dispersed in the 1960s.

[120] COWLEY (Abraham). The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley. Consisting of those which were formerly printed: and those which he design’d for the press. Now published out of the authors original copies. First Edition. Small Folio. [44], 1-148 pp., engraved portrait by William Faithorne. Stain along the lower margin of A1, ink splash on H1, margins of H1-H4 creased (by the binder?) and uncut corner of [2]Q4 folded. Contemporary calf; spine with the partial remains of a red morocco label (heavily rubbed, covers scuffed and worn, corners worn; endleaves dusty, lower front third of the front flyleaf torn-away, pastedowns coming loose). London: by J[ohn]. M[acock]. for Henry Herringman, 1668 £200 Wing C6649 (+;+). State of the title-page with a period after “Press” at the end of line eight. Front flyleaf torn, stain along the lower edge of A1 from what appears to be the removal of a manuscript label. Published posthumously by Thomas Sprat in accordance with Cowley’s will. Sprat includes a lengthy account of the life and works of Cowley and a number of the poems are published here for the first time. The collection was immediately popular and ran through numerous editions. Provenance: 1: Ink initials “A.B.H.” on the front flyelaf. 2: Dominick Trant (d. 1790), of Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland, lawyer, and author of Considerations on the Present disturbance in Munster (1787). Trant’s handsome engraved book-pile bookplate has come detached from the pastedown and is loosely inserted.

[121] COX (Nicholas). The Gentleman’s Recreation: In Four Parts, viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing. Wherein these Generous Excercises are largely treated of, and the Terms of Art for Hunting and Hawking more amply Enlarged than heretofore. Whereto is prefixt a large Sculpture, giving easie Directions for blowing the Horn, and other Sculptures inserted proper to each recreation. With an Abstract at the end of each Subject of such laws as relate to the same. The Third edition, with the Addition of a Hunting-Horse. “Third Edition”. 8vo., [viii], [2 (title to part 1), 158; [2 (title to part 2), 187, [3 (blank)]; [2 (title to part 3), 78, [2 (title to “The Hunter”), 98, [8 (general contents)]pp., with four engraved plates - engraved frontispiece by W. Sherwin depicting various scenes of country life, large folding engraved plate by W. Dolle of hunting tunes surrounded by animals (old repair to a long tear), double- page plate of hawking and a double-page plate of fish, both by Dolle. Lightly browned, light marginal dampstaining througout, minor worming to the top of gatherings C-G that touches the headlines and occasionally the first line of text. Contemporary calf, front cover with 19th-century arms of the Duke of Sutherland blind-stamped to the front cover (covers worn, front cover detached, spine split at the head and tail). London: by Jos. Phillips, and Hen. Rhodes [- part 4: Oxford: by L. Lichfield, for Nicholas Cox, 1685], 1686 £1500 Wing C6705 (National Library of Wales, All Souls’ College Oxford & University of Nottingham in UK; Folger, Harvard, Newberry & Yale in USA). Wing C6704 (British Library; Harvard, Huntington, Illinois, Harvard) is another issue with a variant imprint. The fourth part, The Hunter, is attributed to Gerard Langbaine and is also listed separately by Wing as L374. The order of the contents sometimes varies; this copy has the general table of contents at the end of part four. Cox’s Gentleman’s Recreation is a charming description of country sporting pursuits. This is a composite reissue consisting of the three parts of the 1677 Gentleman’s Recreation to which is added Langbaine’s The Hunter. The unsold sheets of both works were likely purchased jointly by Joseph Phillips and Henry Rodes who then reissued them with a new general title-page calling it “The Third Edition With the Addition of a Hunting Horse”. Provenance:1: Sir John Leveson-Gower (1675-1709), 1st Baron Gower, of Trentham, Staffordshire, with armorial bookplate on the verso of the title; by descent to: 2: John Levenson-Gower (1694-1754), 1st Earl Gower, with early 19th-century armorial bookplate to the front pastedown; by descent to: 3: George Granville Levenson-Gower (1758-1833), 1st Duke of Sutherland, with his arms stamped in blind on the front cover. MAGGS BROS LTD 53

[122] CROUCH (John), editor. The Man in the Moon, discovering a World of Knavery under the Sun, with a perfect Nocturnal, containing several strange Wonders out of the Antipodes, Magyland, Faryland, Greenland, Tenebris, and other parts adjacent. Published for the right-understanding of all the mad merry-people in Great Bedlam. 1663. Numb. 1 [Tuesday April 29]. Small 4to., [8] pp. Occasionally a little spotted and marked and with a small tear from the fore-edge of A3. Disbound; strip of old paper pasted along the spine as a strengthener. [Colophon: London:] Printed in the World in the Moon for J. Jones, to delight all the mad merry people under the Sun, 1663 £750 Nelson & Secombe, English Periodicals, 251.1 (British Library & Cambridge only; no copy in USA). Yale has a photostat of issue 2 only. The first issue of the third incarnation of an early satirical newspaper. A facsimile of this was published, but not widely distributed by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1977. Crouch’s Man in the Moon first appeared in fifty-seven separate weekly issues beginning from 16 April 1649 to 29 May 1650. A brief revival after the Restoration lasted for only four issues (numbered 1-4) from 13 Aug. to 26 Nov. 1660. This third and final revival (it “hath been long absent” but will once again resume regularly following a “twelve-months nap in the Land of Oblivion”) also lasted for only four issues (numbered 1-4) from 29 April to 26 May 1663). The stories and poems included in the paper are almost exclusively fantastical, bawdy, Rabelaisian efforts, such as the purported news from Greenland of a battle fought between an army of “White-Bears and Foxes” and Baboons (3). Less tasteful is the story of Rashbrook, a fisherman who assaults a mermaid, a story which is then rendered into the couplet: “Why should offenders Law and justice scape / When flesh with Fish commits a cruel Rape?” (2). The references, if there are any, to current events are obscure to the point of opacity.

[123] [CROUCH (Nathaniel)]. Admirable Curiosities Rarities and Wonders in England Scotland & Ireland. Being an Account of many Remarkable persons and places; and likewise of Battles, Sieges, Prodigies, Earthquakes, Tempests, Inundations, Thunders, Lightnings, Fires, Murders, and other considerable Occurrences, and Accidents for several Hundred years past. With the Natural and Artificial Rarities in every County, and many other observable passages. As they are Recorded by Credible Historians of former and later Ages. With Pictures of several memorable Passages. By R. B. The fifth Edition, Revised and Corrected. “Fifth Edition revised and corrected.”. 12mo., [4], 182, [8] pp., engraved frontispiece, six woodcut illustrations. Lightly browned, printer’s crease across B10 (touching three lines of text) and F2 (touching two lines), fore-margin of G2 a little frayed, small piece torn away from the corner of G4 and G6 (with loss to the ends of four lines), fore-margin of C1 creased and with some light staining to E11 and G9. Mid-19th-century half calf and marbled boards, with label of Upham and Beet, 46 New Bond Street (rebacked with the original spine laid down, covers faded). London: for Nath. Crouch, 1697 £250 Wing C7308A (British Library, Wellcome Library (imperfect) and National Library of Ireland only; no copies in USA). Crouch’s account of the history of the British Isles was first published in 1682 and reprinted three times before this edition. The title-page exists in two different states with “Poultery” spelt differently in the imprint - this variant is the scarcer of the two (see Wing C7308). The six crude woodcuts illustrate the church of Withy Comb destroyed by lightning (1632), the torture and murder of Edward II with a red-hot poker, Edward the Confessor’s mother undergoing trial by ordeal, the Battle of Bosworth, the groaning ash tree of Brampton in 1606, the rebel Kett in the Oak of Reformation and Lady Godiva. Provenance: “J. Hathway ptum 1s.”, early signature on the title and with Crouch’s pseudonymous initials R.B. on the title-page expanded in the same hand to “Burton”.

[124] [CROUCH (Nathaniel)]. The English Empire in America: Or a Prospect of Their Majesties Dominions in the West- Indies. Namely, Newfoundland, New England, New York, Pensylvania, New-, Maryland, Viriginia, Carolina, Bermuda’s, Berbuda, , , Dominica, St. Vincent, Antego, Mevis, or , S. Christophers, Barbadoes, Jamaica. With an account of the Discovery, Scituation, Product, and other Excellencies of these Countries. To which is prefixed a Relation of the first Discovery of the New World called America, by the Spaniards. And of remarkable voyages of several Englishmen to divers places therein. Illustrated with Maps and Pictures. By R.B. 54 MAGGS BROS LTD

Second Edition. 12mo., 23, 20-184, [4] pp., engraved frontispiece map of New England, engraved map of the Caribbean, and one of the two engraved plates of “Strange Creatures in America”, lacking one plate and the text leaves D6-7. Wormed in the gutter throughout, fore-edges chipped and bumped, piece torn away from the corner of D4 (touching four lines of text), large stain in the inner margin of D4-D5, pencil markings on the rear pastedown. Contemporary sheep; a fragment from an unidentifiable broadside showing the Royal arms and “By the Queen [Anne]” has been used as the front pastedown. (20mm piece torn away from the top of the spine, hole lower down the spine, covers and spine rubbed, chipped and corners heavily bumped). London: for Nath[aniel]. Crouch, 1692 £500 Wing C7320 (Emmanuel & Trinity Colleges Cambridge in UK; Chicago, Huntington, Library of Congress, Yale in USA). Provenance: 1: Signature “John Topping his booke 1710” on the front pastedown. 2: “Joseph A. Lingom”, early 18th-century signature on the front flyleaf.

[125] CROUCH (John). Portugallia in Portu, Portugal in Harbour: or Englands joy and welcome to the Most Illustrious Infanta of Portugal Donna Katharina Queen of England, &c. First Edition. Small Folio., 12 pp. Very lightly foxed throughout, fore-edge of the first three leaves and the lower edge of A5 uncut. Late 19th-century polished and crushed blue morocco by Pagnant, covers with a gilt four-line fillet border, gilt arms block of the Count de Penha Longa, gilt spine, marbled pastedowns, gilt edges and a yellow ribbon marker. London: for Richard Hall, 1662 £4500 Wing C7303A (Cornell only; no copy in UK). [Bound after]: HOLLAND (Samuel). The Phaenix her Arrival and Welcome to England. It being an Epithalamy on the Marriage of the Kings Most Excellent Majesty with the Most Royal and Most Illustrious Donna Katharina of Portugal. First Edition. [2 (?of 4)], 7, [1] pp. [A2-B2], woodcut royal arms on title. London: printed for the Author, 1662. Wing H2442 recording Worcester College Oxford & Winchester Cathedral in UK.; Harvard & Huntington in USA). ESTC calls for a dedication leaf to Prince Rupert which is found in the Harvard copy, which must be a singleton, but it is not present here or in the Worcester College or Huntington copies at least. [Bound before:] BOLD (Henry). Anniversary to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty Charles II. on his Birth-&-Restauration-Day, May 29. Having Resolv’d to Marry with the Infanta of Portugall, May the 8th, 1661. First Edition. Folio., 4 pp., drop-head title Lightly browned, small stain to the blank fore-margin of the final leaf, small crease across the centre of each leaf probably done in the press. [London, 1661?] Wing B3469 (Huntington [ex Chew] & Yale only; no copy in the UK). Three exceedingly rare poems on the marriage of Charles II to Catherine of Braganza of which two are unrepresented in the British Library; the third existing in a later re-print with this first edition surviving in only two recorded copies in separate US institutions. The marriage of the Portuguese infanta, Catherine of Braganza was designed by the Portuguese to further their own diplomatic ties with England and France against the Spanish. Catherine arrived in England in 1662 and was married at Portsmouth on the 21st May; Catherine’s dowry included a large cash sum and the of Tangier and Bombay. The poems by Holland and Crouch celebrate the marriage; the poem by Bold was published (according to the title-page) three weeks after Charles announced his intention to marry in Parliament on 8 May 1661 and looks forward to “two such planets in conjunction [...] / [...] how great will be the star” (3). John Crouch’s (b. c.1615, d. in or after 1680) Portugallia in Portu is in fact an apology for his earlier “ill-tim’d verse” (3) on the same subject, entitled Flowers strovved by the Muses (1662), the conceit of which - “A match with Portugal? Good news but strange! / Believe me tis a Royal New Exchange! / We once (affaires so inauspicious stood) / Mingled in slaughters, now in kinder blood” (6) - seems to have been less than warmly accepted by the recipients. This present verse covers much safer ground with a repeated “Welcome to...” refrain designed to highlight the beauties of the country (“Welcome to London, bedlam’d with its Joy / The City flaming like another Troy”). Henry Bold (1627-16830) worked in the court of chancery but also seems to have published a couple of hack pieces from 1657 onwards. This present poem by Bold was later reprinted in his second collection of poems Poems lyrique macaronique heroique, &c (1664) Wing B3473. ESTC ascribes nine works to “Samuel Holland, gent” of which one Don Zara del Fogo (1656) is a Spanish translation, under the pseudonym Basilius Musophilius. MAGGS BROS LTD 55

From the dedication to Prince Rupert found in the Harvard copy of Portugallia in Portu we know that he had served in the Royalist army under the Prince during the Civil War. He published two elegies, one to Sir Richard Lovelace and the other to Mrs. Anne Gray as well as two other celebratory poems on Charles II. Provenance: 1: Contemporary ink purchase price on each title-page (2d for the first two and 1d for the last). 2: Sebastiano Pinto Leite (1815-1892), Count de Penha Longa and Visconde de Gandarinha, arms on the covers. 3: JSC’s “Cx” cipher and pencil price “ £50-00”.

[126] CROWNE (John). Caligula. A Tragedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesty’s Servants. First Edition. Small 4to., [8], 52, [4] pp. Browned and dampstained throughout. Early 20th-century blind ruled calf (slightly stained and scuffed on the rear board). London: by J. Orme for R. Wellington, 1698 £220 Wing C7376 (+;+). The final leaf lists the names of the actors who played each part on the recto and advertisements on the verso; there are also some advertisements at the foot of the title.

[127] Cuckoo: or, the Welsh Embassadour’s Application to the Raven, in behalf of the Mag-pies and Jack-dawes. First Edition. Small 4to., drophead title. 4 pp. Upper edge closely shaved (just touching pagination on the recto of the first leaf), small ink mark (5mm). Disbound [Colophon:] London: for Thomas Green, 1691 £950 Wing C7458 (British Library only). The cuckoo had been long-known as the “Welsh Ambassador”, because it was presumed to arrive from the West. The avian allusions are deeply obscure but the text is presumably connected with the Glorious Revolution. The final paragraph refers to Don Kainophilus, a pseudonym of John Dunton.

[128] CULPEPER (Nicholas). Culpeper’s Semeiotica Uranica: or, an Astrological Judgment of Diseases, from the Decumbiture of the Sick, much enlarged. 1. From Aven Ezra by way of Introduction. 2. From Nowel Duret by way of Direction. Wherein is laid down the Way and Manner of finding out the Cause, Change, and End of the Disease. Also whether the Sick be likely to live or die; and the time when Recovery or Death is to be expected. With the Signs of Life or Death by the Body of the Sick Party, according to the judgment of Hippocrates. Whereunto is added, a Table of Logistical Logarithmes, to find the exact time of the crisis. Hermes Trismegistus on the first decumbiture of the sick. […] With a compendious Treatise of Urine. Fourth Edition. 8vo., [16], 128, 119-224 (separate title for Uranologia on p. 201), [6 (advertisements)] pp., engraved portrait, small engraved astrological charts of the crises at p. 34 and 44 and the two hand-drawn charts of the crises [ESTC calls for the latter only]. Dusty throughout and light dampstaining, particularly along the lower edges of B1-3, G1-H1 and K3-8, some minor rust spotting , small ink stain just touching the fore-edge of D3-D5, table on D7r just shaved at the fore-edge, inner margin of M5v-M6r stained, small spot on the verso of the first chart. Contemporary calf; “Semioteca uranica” in ink on the fore-edge (covers scuffed, rubbed and chipped; front pastedown unstuck; no rear pastedown or flyleaf). [London]: for N. Brook, and are to be sold by Benj. Billingsley, 1671 £750 Wing C7548A (Wellcome Library & National Trust [Bateman’s, ex Rudyard Kipling] in UK; W.A. Clark, Countway Library of Medicine, Folger, Huntington, New York Academy of Medicine & Yale in USA). Provenance: 1: On the blank recto of the flyleaf is a very neat ink manuscipt table of astrological signs and the parts of the body they influence. A few contemporary ink annotations (mostly pointing fingers or “manicules”, the reader appearing to be particularly interested in the “Signs of Death” associated with the moon, a number of “N.B.”s have been inked in the margins next to these passages (I8-K2). 2: Partial remains of a later bookplate inside the front cover. 56 MAGGS BROS LTD

[129] CULPEPER (Nicholas). A Directory for Midwives: or, a Guide for Women, in their Conception, Bearing; and Suckling their Children [...] To cure all diseases in Women, read the second part of this book [...] Newly corrected from many gross errors. Small 8vo., [8], 161, [29 of 31], 254 [i.e. 270], [2 (advertisements)] pp., two parts in one volume, lacking the longitudinal half-title to the second part. Somewhat browned, grubby and thumbed throughout, with some occasional spotting and a few torn edges or creased corners. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind (spine creased down the centre, headcaps torn, joints rubbed and worn, new front endleaves covering an old bookplate; rear flyleaf cut-away). London: for George Sawbridge, 1681 £950 Wing C7494 (Aberdeen only in UK; National Library of Medicine & Yale in USA; Bibliothèque Nationale in France). Culpeper’s popular midwifery manual was first published in 1651 and reprinted on numerous occasions well into the 18th-century. Culpeper died aged 38 in 1654 but his wife, Alice, who married the astologer John Heydon in 1656, continued to authorise editions of his works; this edition has her 4pp “vindication and testimony, concerning her husbands books” dated 1655 but she was probably long-dead by this time.

[130] Curious Enquiries. Being six Brief Discourses, Viz. I. Of the Longitude. II. The Tricks of Astrological Quacks. III. Of the Depth of the Sea. IV. Of Tobacco. V. Of Europes being too full of People. VI. The various Opinions concerning the Time of Keeping the Sabbath. First Edition. Small 4to., [8], 22, [2] pp., with the license to print leaf (A1). All edges uncut, minor spotting to B1-4, two circular stains in the blank lower margin of D2 where paper flaws have been repaired, fore-margin of final leaf cut-away and renewed. Mid- 20th-century half calf and marbled boards. London: Randal Taylor, 1688 £600

Wing C7678 (+;+). The (longest) section on astrology depicts the anonymous author in a supposed dialogue with a “student in astrology and physick” (B2r). In the introduction the author states that he has printed this account in order to persuade “poor, honest, deluded people, rather to trust in God Almighty, than in the Words of an Ignorant Star-Gazer” (A4r). He suggests using Sir Kenelm Digby’s Powder of Sympathy to calculate longitude. If you have a wounded dog, for example, on your ship and someone back in London applies a bandage that had been used on it to the powder at a specific time the dog will yelp and you will be able to calculate your longitude from the time difference (he forgets you would have needed Harrison’s yet to be invented chronometer). To calculate the depth of the sea you could lightly fix a piece of wood to a stone that would be knocked free when the stone hits the bottom and from the time it takes to resurface you could (if you knew the rate of the stone’s sinking and the wood’s rising) calculate the depth from the time taken. He wonders why tobacco should appeal so universally to men throughout the world and suggests that the surplus population of should emigrate to America and wonders why some people observe the Sabbath from sunset on Saturday to sunset on Sunday when some parts of the world have no sunset. A facsimile of this copy was published, but not widely distributed, by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1977. Provenance: JSC’s “Cx” cipher and pencil price of £5-5-0.

[131] DARY (Michael). The Complete Gauger. In two parts. Theorical [sic] and practical: shewing, the briefest way for gauging all manner of regular vessels; whether backs (coolers) tuns, coppers and cask; either the whole or the parts: by undeniable rules of art. Also all manner of irregular vessels, the whole or the parts, by taking a competent number of mean diameters. Likewise tablets of allowances. By Michael Dary, philomath. heretofore practical gauger. First Edition. 12mo., [12], 140, [4] pp., with a license to print on the verso of the title. Worming to the lower inner margin occasionally touching a word and with a small stain on D6v and D7r. Contemporary sheep (rebacked, later pastedowns, edges lightly rubbed). MAGGS BROS LTD 57

London: for Robert Horne, and Nathanael Ponder, 1678 £2000 Wing D274 (British Library, Bodley, Emmanuel College Cambridge & Christ Church Cambridge in UK; no copy in USA). Only edition of a mathematical treatise on the art of measuring, with particular emphasis on liquid measurements used in the brewing process with numerous woodcut mathematical diagrams and printed tables and calculations. Michael Dary, was a correspondent of the mathematician John Collins (1626-83) and (usually through him) of Isaac Newton. “By profession, a tobacco-cutter”(John Aubrey), in 1673 he was appointed a gunner in the Office of Ordnance. In a letter of 23 April 1663 (S.J. Rigaud, ed., Correspondence of scientific men of the seventeenth century (1841), I, p. 99) to Collins, Dary states that he had come to Bristol “by your good word and will” as a “guager” [sic] and talks about the measuring of barrels and ellipses (see below). Provenance: 1: Thomas Strode (d. 1697), mathematician, of Maperton, Somerset; by descent to his niece: 2: Abigail Swayne (d. 1723), daughter of Richard Swayne and Abigail Strode, of Tarrant Dunville, Dorset, with her signature written on the inside of the front cover (and left visible by the later pastedown). She married, c. 1715 Wyndham Harbin (c.1685-1740), 2nd son of William and Elizabeth Harbin, of Newton Surmaville, Somerset. Thomas Strode and Abigail Swayne also owned a 1660 Euclid’s Elements which remained at Newton Surmaville until the house sale by Lawrence’s on 8/10/2007 [subsequently Blackwell’s Catalogue B157, item 52]. The present volume was sold, with many others, in the 1960s. Along with some calculations on the endleaves is an interesting ink note which must be by Strode: “P. 58. the 4th affection of an ellipse, I do believe he had it out of my MS. for he had it in his possession from Mr John Collins to whom I sent it; and who said that he found it out by trigonometrie; which I do not believe for that noe author ever treated of the angle. P. 69.” There are also some short notes on p.58 at the passage referring to passages in Viviani and Apollonius and “mine”. That Strode is the author both of this note and the manuscript on conical sections sent to John Collins and plagiarised by Dary is confirmed by Thomas Baker in the preface to The Geometrical Key (1684): “Another part (which I mention as a specimen (such as it is) of my gratitude and respects) is deservedly due to that most worthy Gentleman and most Excellent Mathematician Mr. Thomas Strode of Maperton in the County of Somerset; not only for the occasion given of this invention (best known to him only) but for the light I received from his incomparable M.S. touching Conical Sections; wherein I found the propriety belonging to the Diameter of a Parabole above mentioned; without which the invention it self might perhaps have proved abortive. A treatise of such worth and use, that besides his discovery of many new and hidden things never extant, it seems to have engrossed all that is excellent in every Author (that I know) that hath treated or is extant on that subject; ...” (b4r). Strode published only one work, An Arithmetical Treatise of the combinations, elections, permutations, and compositions of quantities (1693).

[132] DAVENANT (Charles). An Essay upon the Probable Methods of making a People Gainers in the Ballance of Trade. Treating of these heads, viz. Of the People of England. Of the Land of England, and its Product. Of our Payments to the Publick, and in what manner the Ballance of Trade may be thereby affected. That a Country cannot increase in Wealth and Power but by the private Men doing their Duty to the Publick, and but by a steady Course of Honesty and Wisdom, in such as are trusted with Administration of Affairs. By the Author of the Essay on Ways and Means. Second Edition. 8vo., [16], 204 pp., with five folding tables (ESTC calls for six although here schemes A and C are printed on the same leaf). A few sidenotes slightly shaved; sheet D foxed, occasional minor spotting throughout. Late 18th-century calf, covers with the gilt arms of William Stuart (rebacked, corners repaired, edges worn, and with new endleaves). London: for James Knapton 1700 £500 Wing D310 (+;+). Davenant gestured towards, but never fully realized, a system of free trade. In this work he dissected the “largely unpublished” (ODNB) calculations of the political economist Gregory King which deal with the population size of England. This work was first published in the previous year (Wing D309). Provenance: 1: William Stuart (1798-1874), of Tempsford Hall, Bedfordshire and Aldenham Abbey, Hertfordshire, with his arms on the covers. After sales at Sotheby’s in 1875 and Christie’s in 1895 the remainder of his library was damaged in a fire at Tempsford. 2: Stringently and critically underlined and marked throughout in pencil in an early 20th-century hand, with some occasional longer annotations and mathematical calculations. A note at the foot of p.11 gives a good indicator of the date of the annotations stating, in relation to Davenant’s estimation of population growth (it should double to 11 million in 600 years) “false prophesy. Pop. has d[ou]’bled in 80 years 1821 to 1901”. Many of the tables have also been updated with the contemporary population figures, bills of mortality, division of population into class and occupation. A note at the foot of p.95 gives the tax rate for 1906 (1/8th of assessed income) which suggest that the notes were made around then. 58 MAGGS BROS LTD

[133] DAVENANT (Sir William). Gondibert: an heroick Poem. Second Edition. 8vo., [4 (first leaf with errata, second leaf title)], 64, [4], 243, [7] pp. Marginal browning, some spotting, and with a paper fault in the lower margin of 04. Contemporary sheep, covers ruled in blind (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves; old flyleaves preserved.). London: John Holden, 1651 £240 Wing D326 (+;+). With laudatory poems by Waller and Cowley and with a long letter by Hobbes (the dedicatee) in praise of the poem. The first edition of this work was published, unfinished, in 4to in 1650 after Davenant’s release from the Tower. Provenance: John Wallis, 17th-century inscription “Liber Johannis Wallis De Temp Inte [of the Inner Temple]”, possibly the John Wallis who entered the Inner Temple in November 1628; below another deleted signature.

[134] DE GREY (William). The Compleat Horse-Man and Expert Feerrier. In Two Books. The first, Shewing the best manner of Breeding good Horses, with their Choice, Nature, Riding and Dieting, as well for Running as Hunting, and how the Rider ought to behave himself in the Breaking and Riding of Colts; as also teaching the Groom and Keeper his true Office, touching the Horses and Colts committed to his charge; and prescribing the best manner how a perfect Stable ought to be situated and made; not heretofore so fully described by any. The second, Directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all Maladies and Diseases in Horses [...] with hundreds of Medicines never before Imprinted in any Author. [...] The Fifth Edition corrected, with some Additions. Fifth Edition. Small 4to., [26], 224, 253, [7] pp. Some minor staining and spotting throughout, small piece torn away from the fore-corner of I2, minor tearing to the edges of [2]B4, [3]I2, [3]K2, [3]U4 and [4]G4, small hole through the centre of M3 affecting four words Contemporary sheep (covers rubbed, corners worn, and with a large piece torn away from the lower headcap; flyleaves a bit torn and stained, pastedowns unstuck). London: by J.R. and R.H. for Samuel Lowndes, 1684 £300

Wing D860 (+ in UK; UC-Berkeley, W. A. Clark, National Library of Medicine & Yale in USA). De Grey’s popular equestrian manual was first published in 1639 and re-issued three times before this edition. Provenance: William Ebourne his booke 1689 / Ann Ebourne”, “Will Ebourn his Booke 1698” signatures on the flyleaves and the title-page, dated both 1689 and 1698. William Ebourne, of Allesley, Wawickshire, married Anne Greswold) in 1688 - she died 7 Feb. 1699, aged 36, leaving 3 sons and 2 daughters. He is probably the William Ebourne who died 11 November 1699 aged 32. Both are buried in All Saints Churchyard, Allesley

[135] DE LA MARCH (John). A Complaint of the False Prophets Marin[ers] upon the drying up of their Hierarchicall Euph[rates]. As it was preached publickly in the Island of Garnezey before a sett order of Ministers, (expounding in their successive turnes the Revelation of St John) by John De la March, one of them. First Edition. Small 4to., [14 (first leaf “The meaning of the Title Page”], 112 pp., with the engraved title-page by John Droeshout incorporating a map of the Holy Land with detailed apocalyptic imagery (cropped at the fore-edge with loss of text to two words affecting the figure on the right and folded-in at the foot; frayed at the foot with loss of the second line of the imprint with date and the engraver’s name) and the folding letterpress table. B1 has been cancelled. First leaf repaired at the outer corners and mounted on a stub, title damaged at the upper corner, third leaf damaged in the inner margin, mounted on a stub and short at the fore-margin, first few leaves dampstained, minor staining to the lower fore-corner of E3-4. Mid-20th-century unfinished binding of quarter morocco and pasteboards (the spine unlettered, the boards unlined). London: Thomas Payne, [1641] £350 Wing D868 (+;+). Reissued in 1645 as A revelation of the time, and fall of the English hierarchy of prelates (Wing D868A - Union Theological Seminary only). De La March’s report to the Commons on the church affairs of in the , arguing for their long-established and independent , which was “supposedly based upon Guernsey ‘prophesyings’ on Revelation, through calendar calculations and allegorical exegesis” which MAGGS BROS LTD 59

“looked to episcopacy’s fall and the rise of presbyterianism” (ODNB). Dedicated to the radical independent Minsister Henry Burton who had been imprisoned at Castle Cornet on Guernsey for seditious libel from November 1637 to November 1640, along with , At least ten of the copies of this work listed on ESTC [in fact almost all those which have copy-specifc information] are described as imperfect with the majority of them being similarly cropped along the fore and lower edges of the title-page which is too large for the rest of the book.

[136] DENHAM (Sir John). Poems and Translations with the Sophy. First Collected Edition, first issue. 8vo., [10], 22, [23-30], 31-186; [6], 44, 43-97, [1] pp. Small ink stain to lower margin of title- page and fore-edges of D1-D7, small rust spots to 2E5 and 2E8, and with a small piece torn away from the lower blank margin of I1. Contemporary polished mottled calf, covers with a double gilt fillet and gilt floral tool in each corner, smooth spine ruled in gilt, gilt edges (joints rubbed, three small wormholes in the upper joint, slight surface crazing to the covers from the mottling acid, one corner slightly worn; bottom corner of the front flyleaf torn away). London: for H. Herringman, 1668 £600 Wing D1005 (+;+), Pforzheimer 277. Denham’s collected poems including his famous topographical verse ‘Coopers Hill’, and ‘The Sophy’ - a ‘verse tragedy’ based on events in Persia under the tyrannic Shah Abbas I. First issue with leaf N6 blank (the seond issue has errata; p. 176 misnumbered 166, p. 45 in part 2 misnumbered 43). Part 2 has a separate title dated 1667. Provenance: 1: The errata have been corrected by hand (following the printed errata leaf added in the second issue - see the next item). 2: Signature of “Edmund Smith [16](88)” on the front flyleaf. 3: Jenks Lutley (b. 1710, son of Penelope Barneby and Philip Lutley), of Lawton, Shropshire, with inscription on a front flyleaf “This book belongs to Jenks Lutley Esquire member of Linco[l]ns Inn living at Henwick in the county of Worcester January 4th 1727”; also with Lutley’s signature on the rear flyleaf dated 1729. 4: Bartholemew Richard Barneby, of Brockhampton, Herefordshire, early 18th-century armorial bookplate.

[137] DENHAM (Sir John). Poems and Translations with the Sophy. First Collected Edition, second issue. 8vo., [10], 22, [23-30], 31-186; [6], 44, 43-97, [1] pp. Small dampstain and some very minor worming to the lower inner margin of A1-K6; two small holes in the lower part margin of H7, and with a paper flaw in the lower corner of M3, 2B1 and the lower edge of I2; stain on Aa8, slight rust spotting to Cc3, and with a small slip of paper glued to the lower corner of Cc4 covering an old neat repair. Contemporary sheep (20mm piece torn away from the foot of the spine, lower corners worn and boards lightly rubbed, old label missing, pastedowns unstuck). London: for H. Herringman, 1668 £500 Wing D1005 (+;+). Second issue with the errata on N6. Page 176 misnumbered 166 and page 45 in part 2 misnumbered 43. Part 2 has a separate title dated 1667. Provenance: 1: Old purchase price “pretii - 3s-00d [written over 2s - 6d]” on the front flyleaf. 2: “Alex Henderson [16?]84”, signature on the final page. 2: Morough O’ Bryen, early 19th-century bookplate.3: George Stawell, solicitor, Torrington, late 19th-century purple ink oval library stamp on the title. He was a great-grandson of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s sister Mary Palmer (1716-94). Her daughter Mary (d. 1820), lived with Reynolds and acted as his housekeeper, and married (as his second wife), Murrough O’Brien, 1st Marquess of , Earl of Inchiquin, etc. (1726-1808); they had a son Murrough O’Brien who died unmarried [see bookplate above].

[138] DENNIS (John). Rinaldo and Armida: a Tragedy: as it is Acted at the Theatre in Little-Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Dennis. First Edition. Small 4to., [14], 54, [2] pp., lacking the half-title and without the errata slip pasted below the ‘Dramatis Personae’ in some copies. Heavily browned and stained throughout, repair to the upper corner of Br touching the first letter on the verso, large repair to the upper blank corner of D4 and with a number of leaves mounted on stubs. Early 20th-century full black morocco. London: Jacob Tonson, 1699 £220 Wing D1042 (+;+). 60 MAGGS BROS LTD

An operatic tragedy founded on Tasso, “Rinaldo and Armida” was the only opera staged at the Lincon’s-Inn-Fields Theatre, “this surpriz’d not only Drury-Lane, but indeed all the Town, no body ever dreaming of an Opera there” (A Companion ... and critical discourse upon operas in England, 1709). It proved moderately successful with music by John Eccles, one of London’s most popular theatre composers. The chorus in Act IV is taken from Purcell’s “Frost Scene”. Provenance: Dr. Thomas Loveday (d. 1968), signature on the front pastedown; from the Loveday family library at Williamscote, Banbury, Oxfordshire; dispersed in the 1960s.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF DESCARTES’ MUSICAE COMPENDIUM [139] DESCARTES (Rene). [BROUNCKER (William, Viscount, translator & editor)]. Renatus Descartes excellent compendium of Musick: with Necessary and Judicious Animadversions thereupon. By a Person of Honour. First Edition in English. Small 4to., [16], 94, [2] pp., later engraved portrait of Descartes before the title. Dampstaining to lower margins throughout, dark ink stain to upper margins of a1-b1 (not touching text), worming to lower margin of I4-M4, and with a small piece torn away from the margins of B3, G3 and L3 (not touching text). Contemporary sheep, covers ruled in blind (spine worn and with some worm damage, edges and corners worn and chewed). London: by Thomas Harper for Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Heath, 1653 £1500 Wing D1132 (+,+). A translation and critique of Descartes’ Musicae compendium. Adorned with numerous diagrams, tables and musical staves as well as 3-page engraved tables with an illustration of a lute (I1r-I2v). Provenance: 1: “William Wilsons May 16th Anno P.77 [sic]”, 18th-century inscription on title. 2: G. U. Hart, Killderry, 19th-century signature on the pastedown.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF DESCARTES’ MEDITATIONS [140] DESCARTES (Rene). MOLYNEUX (William), translator. Six Metaphysical Meditations; wherein it is Proved that there is a God. And that Mans Mind is really distinct from his Body. Written originally in Latin by Renatus Des-Cartes. Hereunto are added the Objections made against these Meditations. By Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. With the Authors Answers. All Faithfully Translated into English, with a short account of Des-Cartes’s life. By William Molyneux. First Edition in English. 12mo., [16], 160 pp. Title-page soiled in the margins and with a small piece torn away from the blank upper margin (to delete an old signature), soiling and dampstaining to the margins throughout, small closed tear to the lower blank margin of C1 (not touching text), and with some minor rust spots. Mid-19th-century calf, gilt ruled (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves). London: by B.G for Benj. Tooke, 1680 £1500 Wing D1136 (+;+). The first English translation of Descartes’ Meditationes de prima philosophia by the Irish experimental philosopher William Molyneux. Also included are Hobbes’s “objections” to the work along with Descartes’ retorts which have been described as being “acerbic to the point of open contempt” (ODNB). Molyneux also included a brief life of Descartes in the preface. Provenance: An old signature has been torn-away from the upper margin of the title-page.

[141] DESCARTES (René). Renati Descartes Epistolae, partim ab auctore Latino sermone conscriptae, partim ex Gallico translatae. First London Edition. Small 4to., [8], 368, [4], 404, [4] pp., with fourteen folding plates and numerous illustrations. Endpapers a little stained by the original turn-ins, some light dampstaining to the first three leaves of sheet O. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind (rebacked and with new endpapers). London: Joh[n.] Dunmore & Octavian Pulleyn, 1668 £750 MAGGS BROS LTD 61

Wing D1130 (+;+). First printed in Amsterdam in 1668, this is the first London edition of Descartes’ extensive collection of letters with numerous folding plates and illustrations. An issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society provides a good account of Descartes’ work. “Though some few of these letters were by the author himself written in Latin, yet the far greater part of them having been written in French, they are now come abroad all translated into Latin, for the benefit of those that are unskilful in the other language. They contain many philosophical questions and matters of all sorts ... They relate to a great variety of subjects, geometrical, arithmetical, musical, optical, mechanical, physiological, medical, metaphysical and moral” (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 40, (1668), p. 805). Provenance: 1: John Wheeler, with inscription “Sum ex libris Jo: Wheeler Aul: Pemb: 1675. Pur: 2d”. Wheeler was admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge on 11 May 1672, B.A. in 1675-76 and M.A. in 1680. As his inscription indicates, Wheeler must have purchased this volume not long after he received his B.A. 2: Johnstone family of Westerhall, Dumfries, with late 18th-century armorial bookplate.

[142] DIGBY (Lord George & Sir Kenelm). Letters between the Ld George Digby, and Sr Kenelm Digby Kt. concerning Religion. First Edition. Small 8vo., [4], 132 pp. Printer’s crease across the top corner of the final leaf disturbing the top four lines. Small semi-circular ink spot touching the upper edge of A1-B8, page numbers occasionally shaved at the upper edge. Contemporary calf (rebacked, new endpapers, boards a little scuffed). London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1651 £220 Wing B4768 (+;+). Variant issue with date “March 39” [sic] on the final leaf. Davida Rubin, Sir Kenelm Digby F.R.S. 1603-1665: A bibliography (1991), no. 40. A series of letters to the Roman Catholic Kenelm in which his family member Lord George advanced the claims of the Church of England over that of Rome. Provenance: Some occasional underlinings (F3v-4r and G5v-6r).

[143] DIGBY (Sir Kenelm). A Choice Collection of Rare Chymical Secrets and Experiments in Philosophy. As also Rare and unheard-of Medicines, Menstruums, and Alkahests; with the True Secret of Volatilizing the fixt Salt of Tartar. Collected by the Honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt. Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother. Hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the Publick, by George Hartman. First Edition, second issue. 8vo., [16], 272 pp., with four engraved plates of scientific instruments and furnaces. Lower edge of the title-page shaved (just touching the border), very slight browning to the final few leaves. Contemporary calf, ruled in blind (19th- century reback and endpapers, corners bumped and headcaps torn). London: for the Publisher [George Hartman], 1682 £350 Wing D1425A (+ in UK; Cincinnati, College of Physicians, Wisconsin-Madison & Yale in USA. Rubin, Sir Kenelm Digby, no. 131. Reissue, with cancel title-page, of Wing D1426 (+; W.A. Clark, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard, Huntington, Yale) which has a variant imprint naming three booksellers. Provenance: 1: Edinburgh Select Subscription Library, established 1794, with inscription on the verso of the title “... from Lieut. Deuchar” (neatly crossed-out) and ink stamp on p. 1 (neatly crossed-out and partly covered with a small strip of stamp paper. 2: Robert Sydney Marsden (1856-1919), Medical Officer of Health of Birkenhead, inscription on the title-page reading “R. Sydney Marsden / Univ:ty of Edin 1882” and a later pencil note on the fly-leaf requesting that the book be returned to him at his house “nr Chesterfield”. Marsden, an expert on matters of public health, studied at Edinburgh and Bristol before taking up the position of Birkenhead Medical Officer in 1891. 3: JSC’s pencil notes on the fly-leaf and purchase note “Bought 1930 [Douglas] Cleverdon”. 62 MAGGS BROS LTD

POWDER OF SYMPATHY [144] DIGBY (Sir Kenelm). A Late Discourse made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France; By Sr. Kenelme Digby, Knight, &c. touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy; with instructions how to make the said powders; whereby many other secrets of nature are unfolded. Rendered faithfully out of French into English. By R. White. Gent. First Edition in English. 12mo., [10], 152, [2] pp. Inner margin of title a little stained and with some loss to the imprint due to adhesion of the flyleaf. Contemporary sheep (tightly rebacked, large repair to front cover and corners repaired). London: R. Lownes, and [T]. Davies, 1658 £240 Wing D1435 (+;+). Rubin, Sir Kenelm Digby, no. 60. Digby’s lectures to a congress of French virtuosi in which he claimed he had ‘cured’ a sword wound on the hand of his friend James Howell. Digby’s cure was based on applying his celebrated ‘synthetic powder’ or ‘weapon-salve’ - in fact dried green vitriol (copper sulphate) - not to the wound but to the weapon. Like many of Digby’s medical experiments around this time his thesis was based on “faulty observations and conclusions that went further than the facts allowed” (ODNB).

[145] DIGBY (Sir Kenelm). A Late Discourse made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France, by Sr. Kenelme Digby, Knight, &c. Touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy; With Instructions how to make the said Powder; [...] The second edition corrected and augmented, with the addition of an index. Second Edition in English. 12mo., [10], 152, [5] pp. Browned and spotted throughout, a number of leaves faintly printed (F1r, F2v, F3r, F4v, F5r, F6v, F7r, F8v, F9r), small burn-hole to the blank fore-margin of F1. Early 19th-century russia, ruled in gilt (upper headcap damaged and joints rubbed and just starting to crack, marbled endleaves stained by the turn-ins). London: for R. Lowndes, and T. Davies,1658 £180 Wing D1436 (+;+). Rubin, Sir Kenelm Digby, no. 61. Provenance: Henry Montagu Digby (1874-1934), Major, 3rd Battalion, West Riding Regiment, of Chalmington House, Dorchester, Dorset, with bookplate.

[146] DIGBY (Sir Kenelm). Observations upon Religio Medici. Occasionaly written by Sir Kenelme Digby, Knight. The second edition corrected and ammended. Second Edition. 12mo., [2], 124 pp. Lightly browned, some dampstaining; faint double-impression of the title. Early 20th-century brown morocco, covers panelled in blind. London: by F.L. for Lawrence Chapman and Daniel Frere, 1644 £350 Wing D1443 (+;+). Rubin, Sir Kenelm Digby, no. 19. [Bound with]: BROWNE (Sir Thomas). [A true and full coppy of that which was most imperfectly and surreptitiously printed under the name of: Religio Medici]. First “Authorized” Edition. 12mo. [18 (of 20], 172, 171-183, [1] pp., lacking the engraved title-page and without the final blank leaf. A2 slightly frayed at the fore-edge, lower corner of A3 torn-away some sidenotes slightly shaved, some slight browning to the first few leaves. [London: Andrew Crooke, 1643]. Wing B5169 (+;+). Keynes, Browne, no. 3. Variant 2 with six extra preliminary leaves, “A Letter sent” by Browne, “Worthy Sir” by Digby, and errata. Provenance: 1: Ink inscription on the first leaf of Religio Medici: “Joh: Merry Jan: 6: 1670” and “mundana vana memento mori” and “pretiu[m] 1s-6d”. 2: JSC’s pencil notes on the pastedown including “Binding 2/- Langdon Davis Bristol 1928”.

[147] DIGBY (Sir Kenelm). Of Bodies, and of Mans Soul. To discover the Immortality of Reasonable Souls. With two Discourses of the Powder of Sympathy, and of the Vegetation of Plants. By Sir Kenelm Digby Knight. First Collected Edition. 4to., [56], 439, [11], 231, [1 (blank)] pp. Some light dampstaining and spotting throughout, small closed tear to the upper edge of L8 (just touching pagination) and with two minor chips to the fore-margin of 2F1-2. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, later spine label and small gilt ornament in each panel (surface of the leather on the covers crazed by damp, some surface rubbing and slight insect damage on the lower cover chipped and rubbed). MAGGS BROS LTD 63

London: by S[arah]. G[riffin]. and B[ennet]. G[riffin]. for John Williams, 1669 £400 Wing D1445 (+;+). Rubin, Sir Kenelm Digby, no. 12 (“Only Collected Edition of Digby’s most important scientific works”). The central theme of the book was “to trace the course of nature and to demonstrate immortality from the basic facts of physical existence [...] Digby sought to prove immortality from ordinary experience: only the life of the body could be proved to end at death. But despite complex argument, how and where the soul subsists after death seems unsatisfactorily explained” (ODNB). Of Bodies, and of Mans Soul; was first published at Paris in 1644 as Two Treatises. It “is a landmark work in several fields of early science. It is the first fully developed expression of atomism or corpuscular theory; the first important defence of Harvey on the circulation [of blood] in English; a modern presentation of the nervous system predating Descartes; and a ground-breaking work in embryology. It also contains the first recorded patch-test for allergy; the fullest early account in English of teaching lip-reading; and material on conditioning anticipating Pavlov.” - Rubin, p.12. The treatise on the Powder of Sympathy had been published separately in 1658 and on the Vegetation of Plants in 1661. Provenance: Helyar family, of Coker Court, Somerset, with bookplate.

[148] DIODORUS SICULUS. COGAN (Henry), translator. The History of Diodorus Siculus. Containing all that is most Memorable and of greatest Antiquity in the first Ages of the World until the War of Troy. Done into English by H. C. Gent. First Edition in English. Small Folio. [10 (of 12, the longitudinal half-title has been cut-out leaving a stub)], 271 pp. Small circular stain in the inner margins of the first few leaves and Kk4-Ll2, rust spot on Kk4. Contemporary sheep, smooth spine ruled in blind and with a red morocco and gilt label (covers heavily scuffed, piece missing from the top corner of the lower cover, upper headcap torn, front pastedown torn-away at head). London: by John Macock for Giles Calvert, 1653 £380 Wing D1513. (+;+). The first part only of Diodorus Siculus’s Greek history written in 40 books, although only the first five books and books 11-20 are still extant, while the remainder exists only in fragments in the works of Photius. The work was originally written in three parts, beginning with the mythical history of non-Hellenic and then Hellenic tribes up to the fall of Troy (printed here). The second part takes the history to the death of Alexander, and the third part ends with the Gallic Wars of Julius Caesar. Provenance: 1: Early inscription on the front flyleaf heavily deleted. 2: Early signature on title “Nic: Hare pret 2s”. 3: Signature on the title “Edm. Sex. Pery” of Edmund Sexten Pery, 1st and last Viscount Pery of Newtown-Pery (1719-1806); by descent through his elder daughter Diana Jane, Countess of Ranfurly to the Earls of Ranfurly, of , Co. Tyrone, with 19th-century bookplate.

[149] DOWNING (Sir George). A Reply of Sir George Downing Knight and Baronet, Envoy Extraordinary from his Majesty of Great-Britain, &c. To the Remarks of the Deputies of the Estates-General, upon his Memorial of December 20. 1664. Old Stile. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 104 pp., some lower edges uncut. Some minor rust spotting to C2, D3, E3 and G1, lower blank corner torn from C3. Mid-20th-century plain calf. London: Anno Dom.1665 £350 Wing D2109 (+;+). Downing was English ambassador to The Netherlands, both for the Commonwealth from 1657 and for Charles II after the Restoration in the years leading up to the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-67). Here he recounts in detail Dutch abuses against English merchant ships trading to Africa and the East Indies. [Bound with:] Articles of Impeachment of High Treason and other hgih [sic] Crimes, Misdemeanours and Offences, against Thomas, Earl of Danby, Lord High Treasurer of England. As they were delivered in to the in the Name of the Commons, December 23, 1678. Together with a letter of the Lord Treasurers to Mr. Montague, late Embassador in France. 4to., 7pp. Drophead title. [London: 1678] Wing A3858 (+,+). Provenance: JSC’s bookplate and “Cx” cipher. 64 MAGGS BROS LTD

[150] [DRAKE (Judith)]. An Essay In Defence of the Female Sex. In which are inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c. In a Letter to a Lady. Written by a Lady. Third Edition, enlarged. Large 8vo.,.[32], 148, [4] pp., engraved frontispiece. Light waterstaining to lower right corner of the second half of the work, section cut from the top of the title-page [62 x 25 mm] removing “An” from title. Contemporary panelled calf (corners and edges lightly chipped, joints cracked). London: for A. Roper, and R. Clavel, 1697. £1500 Wing D2125C (+;+). “One of the most significant English contributions to the early modern debate concerning women” (Hannah Smith, p.727). Long thought to be written by Mary Astell, but recently attributed to the “bluestocking” Judith Drake, the Essay in Defence of the Female Sex is a spirited proto-feminist work that champions the innate spiritual and intellectual equality of men and women. Drake’s work “vigorously and wittily vindicated female intellectual abilities and character” (ibid, 728) and the work’s “welding of rationalist epistemology to ‘feminist’ argument has particular originality within the context of early modern pro- women writings” (ibid). Provenance: 1: Contemporary ink price “Pret. 2s: 5d” on the front pastedown, pencil inscription “Frances Cotton Anne Fleming Augs ye 14 1715” on the front flyleaf; “Mrs. Cotten” signature to rear pastedown. “H. Hall” 18th-century red ink stamp on the title (from which another stamp or signature has been cut. “Jane Wh[i?]ll, 19th-century signature on the front pastedown. Literature: Hannah Smith, “English ‘Feminist’ writings and Judith Drake’s ‘An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex’ (1696)”, The Historical Journal, vol. 44, no. 3 (Sept. 2001), pp. 727-747.

DRYDEN, SATIRE AND THE INCONSTANCY OF WOMEN... [151] DRYDEN (John). The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts. First Edition. Small 4to., [8], 145, [1] pp. Very light foxing to the final leaf and some occasional minor spotting in places. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, spine (joints cracking, headcaps broken, covers worn, patch of worming to the lower board). London: for Jacob Tonson,1687 £650 Wing P3511 (+;+). Macdonald, Dryden, 24a(i). First state of the final leaf with no errata on the recto and the verso blank. “An allegorical poem in which the spotless white Hind (representing the Church of Rome) engages the beautiful but dangerous Panther (the Church of England) MAGGS BROS LTD 65

in theological discussion about the nature of the true church, the authority of tradition, and the need for individual reason to subordinate itself to pope and councils” (ODNB). [Bound with]: 1: HALIFAX (Charles Montagu, Earl of) & PRIOR (Sir Matthew). The Hind and the Panther Transvers’d to the Story of The Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse. First Edition. [8], 28 pp., with the first blank. Spotted in places. London: for W. Davis, 1687. Wing P3511 (+;+). Written just months after the publication of Dryden’s poem. In this version the hind is replaced by a mouse, earning Montagu the nickname Mouse Montagu. The satire was met with instant public acclaim. 2: GOULD (Robert). Love given over, or a Satyr against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy &c. of Woman. Amended by the Author. Third Edition. [2], 11 pp. Lightly foxed. London: for R. Bentley and J. Tonson, 1686. Wing G1425 (Bodley, Cambridge [2copies], Bodley, John Rylands in UK; + in USA. A lively, coarse, satire on the inconstancy of women. Gould’s most popular work - it was published in five editions before 1700. 3: AMES (Richard). Sylvia’s Revenge, or; a Satyr against Man; in answer to the Satyr against Women. First Edition. [8], 22, [2] pp., with the longitudinal half-title. Small dark circular stain to the centre of the first few leaves and a larger less severe mark to the final two leaves and pastedown. London: by Joseph Streater, and are to be sold by John Southby, 1688. Wing A2992D (+;+). A response to Gould’s poem and also Ames’s best known work which went through twelve editions. Provenance: JSC’s bookplate and pencil purchase note “Coxwell sale 1935” and price “£20-0-0”.

[152] DUNSTAR or DUNSTER (Samuel). Anglia Rediviva; being a full Description of all the , Cities, Principal Towns and Rivers in England. With some useful Observations concerning what is most Remarkable, whether in relation to their Antiquity, Situation, Buildings, Traffick, or Inhabitants. To which is Prefix’d a short Account of the first Origine of our Nation of its being Conquer’d by the Romans. As also the occasion of the Saxons and Danes first entring England. Collected from the best Historians by Mr. Dunstar. First Edition. 8vo., [8], 131, [1 (blank), [8 (tables)], [4 (advertisements)]pp. Uncut copy, but foxed, damp stained and spotted throughout (heavily on B1-C1). Early 18th-century marbled boards with a largely disintegrated parchment spine (worn, rubbed, covers almost detached) London: for T. Bennet, C. Coningsby, D. Midwinter, and T. Leigh, 1699 £220 Wing D2617 (British Library, Bodley, Corpus Christi College Oxford, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales in UK; Nieder-Saachsische Bibliothek; Chicago, Huntington, Library of Congress & Yale in USA). Only edition of a county history of England with short descriptions of each major town. Provenance: 1: Brodrick family, (and from 1920-79 Earls of) Midleton, of Peper Harrow, Surrey, with mid-18th-century armorial bookplate; Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount(1655/6-1728) was Lord Chancellor of Ireland (1714-25), sale, Hodgson’s, 7-8/12/1944, part of an unidentified lot, 10/- to Maggs, with cost “H/12/44 so” at the end.

WITH CONTEMPORARY ANNOTATIONS REVEALING ROYAL PARAMOURS [153] DUNTON (John). The Night-Walker: or Evening Rambles in search after Lewd Women, with the conferences held with them, &c. To be publish’d monthly, ’till a discovery be made of all the chief prostitutes in England, from the Pensionary Miss, down to the Common Strumpet. Small 4to., [4], 28, [2 (advertisement, verso blank]. With the final advertisement leaf. Headlines, catchwords and page numbers often cropped, some light foxing and thumbing, occasional poor inking. Modern half brown morocco and marbled boards. London: for J. Orme, 1696 £1250 Not in Wing as it is a periodical. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals records only the British Library set of issues 1-7. ESTC lists imperfect sets at the Guildhall Library London and the Library of Congress, two issues at the National Library of Scotland (Sept.-Oct. 1696) and single issues at Folger (Oct. 1696) and Library Company of Philadelphia (Benjamin Franklin’s copy of the March 1697 issue). This is the second, October 1696, issue of The Night-Walker: or, evening rambles in search after lewd women which was a monthly publication edited and largely written by John Dunton that “consists of interviews with prostitutes, probably imaginary” (ESTC) from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. 66 MAGGS BROS LTD

The first issue of the publication appeared in September of 1696 and the publication concluded with the April 1697 issue. A facsimile edition was published, but not widely distributed, by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1970.. Provenance: Contemporary annotations to the first six pages supplying the full names of women whose initials only appear in the text. For example, the first line states “To the Duchess of - - -” with “Cleveland” supplied in ink after. Later in the text “N.G.” has been expanded to “Nell Gwyn” and the initials “D - of - P” are revealed to be those of the Duchess of Portsmouth.

[154] DUPPA (Brian, Bishop of Salisbury). The Soules Soliloquie: and, a Conference with Conscience. As it was delivered in a Sermon before the King at Newport in the Isle of Wight, on the 25 of October, being the monthly Fast during the late Treaty. Small 4to., [2], 21, [1] pp. Title-page and final leaf a little soiled and stained. Mid 20th-century paper wrappers, front cover with a hand drawn title surrounded by a floral border. [London]: for R. Royston, 1648 £100 Wing D2666aA (+;+). Another edition from the same year has a slightly longer imprint. A sermon delivered to the King whilst he was imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight.

[155] [DURFEY (Thomas)]. Butler’s Ghost: or, Hudibras. The Fourth Part. With Reflections upon these Times. First Edition. 8vo. [8], 188, [4]pp. Lightly browned. Contemporary sprinkled sheep, later gilt tooling spine (joints rubbed and slightly cracked at the foot, label missing). London: for Joseph Hindmarsh, 1682 £150 Wing D2703 (+;+).

[156] DUVAL (Pierre). SPENCE (Ferrand), translator. Geographia Universalis. First Edition. 8vo., [20], 298, 353-482 [i.e. 428], [4] pp. Small piece torn away from the upper edge of the title-page (affecting the rule border) and the lower edge of F2, light damp-staining to the corners of C5-6 and E1-8. Contemporary sprinkled calf (joints split, top panel of the spine defective, red morocco label largely torn away; front flyleaf loose). London: by Henry Clark for Francis Pearse, 1685 £180 Wing D2919A (Glasgow University only in UK; Folger, Harvard, Huntington and Newberry in USA). Wing D2919 is another state with Benjamin Cox’s name as the bookseller. A second “corrected and enlarged” edition (1690) is Wing D2919B. Translated from the French La Geographie Universelle by the cartographer to the King of France, Pierre Duval. Duval’s descriptions, although sometimes relatively short, detail the various cultures, climates, traditions, agriculture and religions of the world. The French original was illustrated with maps, this edition is stripped back to the descriptions of the individual countries, with Spence making it clear in his introduction that he has altered, added and re- organised much of the work to suit an English audience.

[157] EPICTETUS. WALKER (Ellis), translator. Epicteti Enchiridion made English in a poetical paraphrase. 8vo., [24], 120 pp., engraved frontispiece depicting Epictetus’s simple home on the outskirts of Rome. First two and final prelims torn and creased, small hole in lower blank corner of frontispiece (A1), damp-staining in the inner margin of C1-E1, small piece torn away from the lower blank margin of the final leaf and last page dusty, and with a small stain touching the page numbers of H6-I2. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind (two holes on the front cover where corner stamps have apparently been too heavily impressed, and small part of one on rear, top panel of the spine crudely repaired with cloth, label missing). London: by Ben Griffin for Sam Keble, 1692 £140 Wing E3149 (+;+). First edition of this much-reprinted verse translation. Provenance: Charles Morris, early signature on title-page. MAGGS BROS LTD 67

[158] ERASMUS (Desiderius). The Colloquies; or, Familiar Discourses of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Rendered into English. A Work of very great Use to such as desire to attain an exact knowledge of the Latin Tongue. by H.M. Gent. First Complete Edition in English. 8vo., [8], 555, [5] pp., with the final longitudinal half-title, etched portrait of Erasmus (slightly trimmed at the fore-edge). Lightly browned throughout, some occasional stains, a few small ink stains, closed tear to the foot of E8 (just touching the final line of text) and with a very small damp spot on 2H6. Mid-20th-century light-brown morocco (a few damp-spots on the covers). London: by E. T. and R. H. for H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, 1671 £220 Wing E3190 (+;+). The Colloquia were written over a period of years, mostly during the 1520s. They were regularly published in England from 1519, but this 1671 edition represents the first printing of a complete English translation. It has been variously attributed to Henry More and Henry Munday. Provenance: There are a lot of early ink corrections on the first 4pp. (“Saluting at first meeting”).

[159] EVELYN (John). Kalendarium Hortense: or, the Gard’ners Almanac, directing what he is to do Monthly throughout the Year. And what Fruits and Flowers are in prime. The Eighth Edition, with many useful Additions. Small 8vo., [22], 175, [15] pp., engraved frontispiece (outer margin damaged and inner and outer margins crudely strengthened), full-page engraving of Evelyn’s proposal for a greenhouse (M6). Title-page lightly browned and with a very small piece torn away from the blank fore-corner, some minor dampstains and a very small piece torn away from the upper blank margin of D2. Contemporary calf, ruled in blind (head and tail of spine repaired, joints worn, corners repaired, new endleaves; damsptain on one of the front flyleaves). London: for R. Chiswell, T. Sawbridge, R. Bently, 1691 £220 Wing E3498 (+;+). Keynes, Evelyn, no. 66. First published in folio in 1664 as part of Sylva, or a discourse on forest-trees, it was then reprinted separately (as an 8vo) in 1666 and on numerous occasions thereafter. Despite the fame of Sylva this was Evelyn’s most popular text. Two texts were added to this edition: a description of “A New Conservatory, or Green-house” (p.150-62) and a “Catalogue of Fruit Trees” (p. 16-75). First issue before the title was cancelled to include details of the two extra works. Abraham Cowley’s poem “The Garden”, written in 1666, is also first printed here.

[160] EVELYN (John). The State of France, as it stood in the IXth yeer of this present Monarch, Lewis XIIII. Written to a Friend by IE. First Edition. 12mo., [46], 116 pp., author’s engraved “IE” monogram entwined with palm fronds and laurel branches on the title; without the first and final blank leaves. Upper edge closely shaved (touching the headline in places) and with a small chip from the corner of A5 (not touching text). Late 18th-century tree calf; spine gilt with red and black morocco title and a shelf-label at the foot “487”, yellow edges. London: By T. M[axey]. for M. M[eighen]. G. Bedell & T. Collins, 1652 £1500 Wing E3515 (+;+), Keynes, Evelyn, 3. The work begins with a long prefatory letter to an anonymous friend which discusses the various reasons for travelling and the proper conduct of the traveller while he is abroad. Evelyn also suggests the best route to take through Europe; starting in the Netherlands, passing through into 68 MAGGS BROS LTD

Germany where the traveller will then “naturally slide” into Italy before returning back through Spain and France. The second part provides “a somewhat dry account of the French monarchy, court, army, constitution, &c., and the manner of their government [...] it becomes somewhat more enlivening towards the end when Evelyn describes the people of France, their habits and their persons” (Keynes). Evelyn was well placed to comment on the state of France as he had spent nearly four years on the Continent (in France and Italy) undertaking what is regarded as, “one of the great seventeenth-century examples of the grand tour” (ODNB). There are two issues with (as here) or without the engraved “I.E” monogram on the title which is similar to examples also used on his binding made in Paris in the early 1650s. Keynes suggests that “it is possible that those copies with the engraved vignette were specially printed for the author to give to his friends” although he concedes that the evidence for this is “scanty”. Provenance: 1: From an unidentified library, with late 18th-century shelf-number “487” tooled in gilt on a label on the spine. 2: JSC’s pencil notes on the front pastedown.

THE LOVEDAY COPY [161] EVELYN (John). Sculptura: or the History and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper. With an ample enumeration of the most renowned Masters and their Works. To which is annexed a new manner of Engraving, or Mezzo Tinto, communicated by his Highness Prince Rupert to the Author of this Treatise. First Edition. 8vo., [32], 148, [4 (“an advertisement”)] pp., engraved frontispiece designed by Evelyn and engraved by A. Hertochs, one engraved plate and a fine impression (folded once as usual) of Prince Rupert’s mezzotint “the head of an executioner” (cut close to the plate-mark at the outer margin and very slightly creased at the outer margin), engraved vignette of Evelyn’s “IE” cipher

Image reduced. MAGGS BROS LTD 69 on the title. Small hole through the centre of G7 from a paper flaw with slight loss on two lines), minor ink blotting to the fore- corners of A8 and b1 and a few spots. Contemporary calf (rebacked, most the original spine, with early 18th-century gilt tooling, preserved; covers a little scuffed). London: by J[ames]. C[ottrell] for G. Beedle and T. Collins, 1662 £3200 Wing E3513 (+;+). Keynes, Evelyn, 33. A good copy of an important book on the history of engraving and reproductive prints. Intended to complement, and often bound with, William Faithorne’s Art of Graveing and Etching (1662), but not here. The gorgeous mezzotint by Prince Rupert is taken from the figure of the executioner in a painting of the Execution of St John the Baptist attributed to Spagnoletto and, when Keynes was writing in 1937 at Munich. Rupert, who was one of the first to work in mezzotint, also made a very rare full-length version known as the “Great Executioner”. 1: John Loveday (1711-89), antiquary and traveller, with his acquisition note “Pr. 7s-6d Ao. 1732-3” (he was then at Magdalen College, Oxford).” and shelfmark to the front pastedown “D.4.-19” and a note to the binder for the label (in a different hand) “Gild Eveling / Cholcog”; by descent in the Loveday family library at Williamscote, Banbury, Oxfordshire; dispersed in the 1960s.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK ENTIRELY DEVOTED TO TOBACCO [162] EVERARD (Giles). Panacea; or The Universal Medicine, being a discovery of the wonderful vertues of Tobacco taken in a Pipe, with its operation and use both in Physick and Chrurgery. First Edition in English. 8vo., [16], 79, [1], 55, [9] pp., engraved portrait of the author in his library (cut-round and inlaid and probably supplied from another copy). Browned throughout, title grubby and with a stain in the upper inner corner, very slight worming in the lower inner margin of the first few leaves, small chip from the fore-edge of the final leaf. Mid-20th-century sheep. London: for Simon Miller, 1659 £1500 Wing E3530 (+;+). Originally published in Latin at Antwerp in 1587 as De Herba panacea, quam alii Tabacum and reprinted at Utrecht in 1644. Dedicated by the translator “J. R.” to “all the worthy merchants and planters of Tobacco, for and in the West-Indies, and America” (A2r). The author begins his account with a short history of tobacco in which he admits that it has been abused by some, but believes that ultimately “God intended by discovering this herb to Christians amongst the Indians, that by their daily commerce, the Gospel of Jesus Christ should be made known to those Heathen people” (A5r). Everard’s main contention though, is that tobacco can provide a medicinal effect when taking in the correct quantity and manner. Provenance: JSC’s “Cx” cipher, date “1936” and pencil note “With the extremely rare portrait. Portrait re-margined. £4/10/-”. JSC was an inveterate pipe smoker [see frontispiece]. 70 MAGGS BROS LTD

TO BRISTOL, AS CHRIST ENTERED JERUSALEM [163] FARMER (Ralph). Sathan Inthron’d in his Chair of Pestilence. Or, Quakerism in its Exaltation. Being a true narrative and relation of the manner of James Nailer (that eminent Quaker’s) entrance into the city of Bristoll the 24. day of October, 1656 [...] Together with some blasphemous letters found about him, with their examinations thereupon, in this city, and other considerable passages, and observations. Whereto is added a vindication of the magistrates and inhabitants of this city, in reference to the nesting of these Quakers amongst us. With a declaration of the occasion, rise and growth of them in this city. First Edition. Small 4to. [8], 68 pp. Title-page lightly foxed and soiled, headline of “Epistle” and the occasional page number cropped by the binder, some occasional spotting, gathering C foxed, intermittent foxing throughout. Modern calf (joints and edges lightly chipped, corners bumped). London: for Edward Thomas, 1657 £350 Wing F444 (+; W.A. Clark, Haverford College, Huntington, Swarthmore College, & Union Theological Seminary in USA). This scarce pamphlet describes the imprisonment and trial of the prominent Quaker evangelist James Nailer (or Nayler) in October 1656. Nailer and his followers had re-enacted the arrival of Christ in Jerusalem with Nailer riding whilst his two female followers sang and threw down their clothes in front of him as they entered Bristol. One of the women was Martha Simonds, a published quaker pamphleteer, wife of Thomas Simmonds and sister of Giles Calvert, two leading Quaker stationers. Nailer was accused of impersonating Christ with the belief being that he had messianic pretensions. Nailer was tried in December and although he narrowly escaped prison he was flogged, branded with the letter ‘B’ on his forehead and had his tongue pierced with a hot iron (ODNB). Provenance: Mrs Whiteside, 19th-century signature on flyleaf.

LARGE PAPER COPY [164] [FATIO DE DUILLIER (Nicolas)]. Fruit-walls improved, by inclining them to the horizon: Or, a way to build walls for fruit-trees; whereby they may receive more sun shine, and heat, than ordinary. By a member of the Royal Society. First Edition. 4to., xxviii, [2], 128 pp., two folding engraved plates and engraved headpieces by Gribelin. Large Paper copy. Lightly dampstained throughout. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt (rebacked preserving the original spine, corners chipped, bumped and worn). London: by R. Everingham and are to be sold by John Taylor, 1699 £850 Wing F557 (+;+). An early work on the efficient utilising of solar energy to increase the yield of plants. “Here he remarked on changes in the weather since 1683, which he attributed to a decline in the incidence of sunspots and the consequent dispersal of a mist between the sun and the earth. Fatio’s interest in the physical processes by which the sun’s heat could be transmitted was linked to his earlier explanations of zodiacal light, to his ongoing work on the cause of gravity, and to his later investigations, in the years around 1705, of the paths of comets and the nature and prophetic interpretation of the aurora borealis. For all of these phenomena Fatio offered a mechanical explanation in terms of the motion of tiny particles and their effects, yet he was also influenced by Newton’s ideas about the importance of comets and other celestial bodies in providing nourishment to the earth. In particular he believed that God had constructed nature as a self-sustaining system, which demonstrated his general providence, an idea that also informed Fatio’s work on the reduction of the effects of friction in clock movements and his long-standing interest in perpetual motion machines.” (ODNB). Often issued with Fatio’s Lineae Brevissimi Descensu Investigatio Geometrica Duplex (1699), a 24 page work that opened the controversy between Newton and Leibnitz over who could claim credit for the invention of calculus. Provenance: William Morehead, 19th-century armorial bookplate.

[165] FORD (Emanuel). The Most Famous, Delectable, and Pleasant History of Parismus, the most Renowned Prince of Bohemia. The First Part. Containing his most Noble Atchievements, and Triumphant Battles fought against the Persians; his Love to the beautiful Princess Laurana, the Kings daughter of Thessaly: the great dangers he passed in the Island of Rocks; and of his strange Adventures in the Desolate Island. The Ninth Impression, newly Corrected and Amended. [- The Second Part, containing the Adventurous Travels, and Noble Chivalry of Parismenos, the Knight of Fame; With his love to the beautiful and fair Princess Angelica, the Lady of The Golden Tower. The 9th Impression, newly corrected and amended]. MAGGS BROS LTD 71

Small 4to., [6], 200, [2]; [4], 140, 147-273, [1]pp., woodcut frontispiece of Parismus and Laurana (repeated for part 2). Lightly browned and stained/grubby, upper fore-corner bumped and dampstained throughout, and with a piece torn away from the lower blank corner of E4; part 2 with some ink spotting on the title-page, upper fore-corners bumped and torn between A1-M4, minor printing error on E1v and E2r, Y1 very closely trimmed (with 18mm lost from the fore-margin and 20mm from the lower margin (touching the signature and catchword on the recto and losing the catchword on the verso) to remove inscriptions in the lower and fore-margins), lower corners of 2K1-4 sliced away (with no loss of text) and with the corners of the last three leaves (Ll1-3) repaired, the final leaf trimmed slightly short at the fore-margin. Contemporary calf (rebacked, chip from the lower corner of the front cover, chewed, new endleaves). London: A[nne].P[urslowe] for F[rancis]. Coles, T[homas]. Vere, and J[ohn]. Wright, 1671 [-1672] £750 Wing F1534 (British Library, Bodley, Magdalene College Oxford, St David’s University College in UK; Folger, Huntington, Newberry, Princeton & Yale in USA). Parismus was first published in 1598 (with the second part in the following year) and proved extremely popular both in terms of sales success - over twenty editions in the 17th century and eight in the 18th - and in its influence on at least six 17th-century plays including works by Richard Fanshawe and Thomas May. Provenance: 1: “Charles Colman His Booke An dom: 1689” and “and now Jane Colmans anodomy; 1704” and “Mrs Collman Her Booke Anno dom” (twice) and “Thomas Barton”, all on the blank recto of the first frontispiece. and “Mrs Jane Coleman his [sic] the right oner of this book” on the verso of the final leaf of part 1. A few other pen-trials. 2: , early 19th-century signature on the title. 72 MAGGS BROS LTD

“WRIT IN AMERICA” [166] FRANCK (Richard). A Philosophical Treatise of the Original and Production of Things. Writ in America in a time of solitudes by R. Franck. First Edition. 8vo., [26], 170 pp. Small black ink stains on G8r and H1v, small piece torn away from the blank corner of H2 and L3, minor rust spot to fore-edge margin of H4, M3 slight worn and the head and foot resulting in three small holes in the upper margin. Contemporary sheep, ruled in blind, red morocco label (small piece chewed from the lower corner of the front board, corners worn, joints rubbed and the front joint beginning to crack at the foot, inside joints split). London: by John Gain, and are to be sold by S. Tidmarsh; and S. Smith, 1687 £3200 Wing F2065 (British Library, Bodley, Signet Library [sold in 1983, now = Folger], National Library of Scotland and Glasgow University in UK; + in USA). The first theosophical work to be written in America. Richard Franck (?1624-1708?), a former captain in the Parliamentary army, went to America some time after the Restoration of Charles II; he was certainly there in the 1680s but perhaps earlier and it is presumed (not necessarily) that he was back in England in 1687 for the publication of this book which could have been written some years earlier. In this work he follows the gnostic/rosicrucian philosophies on creation and the natural world of the theosophist Jacob Boehme.

[167] FREART (Roland, sieur de Chambray). EVELYN (John) Trans. A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern, in a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have written upon the Five Orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. The three Greek Orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the First Part of this Treatise. And the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita the Latter. Written in French by Roland Freart, Sieur de Chambray; made English for the Benefit of Builders. To which is added an account of Architects and Architecture, in an Historical and Etymological Explanation of certain Tearms particularly affected by Architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti’s treatise of statues. By John Evelyn Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. Adorned with fifty one copper plates. First Edition in English. Folio, [24], 159, [1] pp. With an elaborate engraved frontispiece with a portrait of the dedicatee, Francois Sublet de Noyes (1589-1645) a protege of Cardinal Richelieu, 43 elegant engraved plates throughout the text, and numerous engraved head and tail pieces. Light soiling to the blank upper right corners of pp. 129-140, some occasional light soiling throughout, but overall, a fine, unsophisticated copy. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind (upper quarter of front joint cracked, corners bumped, joints lightly chipped, covers lightly scuffed). London: Printed by Tho[mas] Roycroft, for John Place, 1664 £2500 Wing C1923 (+,+). Keynes, Evelyn, no. 74. A handsome copy of an important illustrated survey of classical architecture translated by the virtuoso diarist, writer and collector John Evelyn. “In 1664 Evelyn published A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern, translated from the French of Roland Fréart, Sieur de Chambray [Fréart’s Parallèle de l’architecture antique et de la moderne first appeared in 1640] with additional matter, partly original. The Parallel consists mainly of measured drawings of specimens of the five classical orders of columns ... It evidently served as an architect’s repertory for Wren’s [Evelyn’s close friend, the architect Christopher Wren (1632- 1723) immediate successors.” (E.S. de Beer, “John Evelyn, F.R.S. (1620-1706)”, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, Vol. 15, July 1960, p. 235. Evelyn appended to A Parallel his own translation of Leon Baptista Alberti’s work on sculpture De Statua because the two works “cannot well be separated” because Alberti’s work is so “full of profitable instruction to our workmen, who for want of these or like rules, can neither securely work after the life, or their own inventions, to the immense disgrace of that divine art” (p.143). A reissue of the unsold sheets of this edition with a cancel title-page appeared in 1680 under the title The Whole body of antient and modern architecture. Further editions appeared after Evelyn’s death in 1707, 1723 and 1733. MAGGS BROS LTD 73

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WITH EXTENSIVE CONTEMPORARY ANNOTATIONS [168] GARTH (Samuel). The Dispensary: A Poem in Six Canto’s [...] The Second Edition, corrected by the author. Second Edition. 8vo., [24], 94pp., engraved frontispiece depicting the “Theatrum Cutlerianum” by Van der Gucht. Printed on thick paper. Lightly browned throughout, occasional light staining and spotting, light ink stain to the blank upper margin of F7 (just touching headline). 19th-century vellum (a bit soiled). London: by John Nutt, 1699 £950 Wing G274 (+;+). This second edition is considerably altered from the first edition of the same year, with the addition of a dedication to Anthony Henley, a preface and commendatory poems by Charles Boyle, Christopher Codrington, Thomas Cheek and Henry Blount. Written to ridicule the apothecaries of London and the minority at the Royal College of Physicians who were blocking the plan to establish a dispensary for the poor of London, Garth’s work “illustrates Garth’s sense of humour, attachment to classical literary models, and convictions about the medical profession and apothecaries ... The Dispensary appeared in three editions by the end of 1699. A fourth

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edition appeared in 1700, a sixth in 1706, and tenth in 1741. Garth omitted and changed lines in the editions published during his lifetime” (ODNB). An anonymous early 18th-century reader has collated this copy with the sixth edition (1706), correcting and amplifing this copy where there are textual differences. One can see the sheer quantity of material that Garth added to The Dispensary in the annotations. For example, in the lower blank margin of the recto of E5 the annotator has written “Here follows what is written on the first side of the paperleaf in the beginning of this book”. The note refers to the lengthy annotation that fills the entire blank recto of the first original blank leaf. It is clear that these annotations are not authorial since none of the information contained in them would have been privy to the author alone. For example, the text often provides abbreviated names but in this copy, none of the identities are revealed. The same hand has added a tiny pornographic ink sketch that leaves little to the imagination on the lower blank margin of G6r. Provenance: 1: Contemporary signature “Johannes Whitehead” [or “Whiteherd”], written under the annotation on the recto of the first original blank. 2: 2pp of manuscript notes on the preliminary flyleaves, extensively annotated throughout the text. 3: A. H. Christie, 19th-century bookplate. 4: Edward [or Edmund] Smith, late nineteenth or early twentieth century signature to front pastedown.

[169] [GAUDEN (John)]. A Discourse of Artificial Beauty, in Point of Conscience between two Ladies. Third Edition. 12mo., [24], 238, [2] pp., engraved frontispiece depicting two women in front of a mirror. Sheet A washed and pressed (and sprung from the binding); lightly browned throughout with sections of strong intermittent browning, dampstain to the blank lower margin. Contemporary calf (rebacked, wormhole in the front joint, area of insect damage on the front cover, corners worn). London: by J.L. for Luke Meredith, 1692 £200 Wing G354 (+;+). First published in 1656 as A discourse of auxiliary beauty (Wing G355). Another edition appeared in 1662. A defence of women’s make-up, on the basis of long-established historical use, cast in the form of a dialogue penned by the bishop of Worcester and chaplain to Charles I. Provenance: Late 18th-century catalogue entry to top of title-page “No. 121 Cat: page 3” and oval library stamp to the foot of the title (both washed-out).

[170] GAYA (Louis de). A Treatise of the Arms and Engines of War, of Fire-works, Ensigns, and Military instruments, both Ancient and Modern; with the Manner they are at present used, as well in French Armies, as amongst other Nations. Inriched with many Figures. Written Originally in French by Lewis de Haya, Author of the Treatise called The Art of War. Translated for Publick Advantage. First Edition in English. Small 8vo., [16], 143, [1 (adverts)] pp., engraved frontispiece of military trophies and nineteen engraved plates. Light browning and marginal dampstaining, a few short marginal tears. Contemporary sheep (rebacked, corners bumped, new pastedowns). London: for Robert Harford, 1678 £350 Wing G402A (British Library & Christ Church Oxford in UK; Folger, Huntington, Library Company of Philadelphia, New York Public Library & Yale in USA). A translation of Un traité des armes (1678) which provides an illustrated account of the history warfare and armoury. The plates show various weapons, military manoeuvres, uniforms and methods of assault from the Romans to the modern musketeer. Harford also published in the same year Gaya’s The Art of War, and the way that it is at present practised in France. Provenance: Thomas Walker, a section of the old pastedown has been pasted to the new one with Walker’s signature and “engines of war” inscribed in ink. A crude half-length profile portrait of a musketeer has been drawn in ink on the final flyleaf.

[171] GILBERT (Samuel, Phileremus). [The] Florist’s Vade-Mecum. Being a Choice Compendium of whatever worthy Notice, hath been Extant for the Propagating, Raising, Planting, Encreasing, and Preserving the rarest Flowers and Plants that our Climate and Skill (in mixing and making and meliorating apted soils to each Species) will perswade to live with us. With Several New Experiments, for raising New Varieties, for their most advantageous Management. In a more particular Method than ever 76 MAGGS BROS LTD yet Publish’d. Together with directions what to to do each Month throughout the Year, in both Orchard and Flower-Garden. The Second Edition Corrected. 12mo., [12], 137, [31]pp., two woodcut designs for garden layouts (A3r - A4v). The title-page is a cancel with the stub of the original title-page remaining. The final two leaves (H5-H6) have been severely mutilated with loss of text; signature cut from the upper margin of the title with loss of first line of text (“THE”), slightly browned throughout, minor ink staining to B12, small closed tear to fore-edge of D4, dark staining to centre of E2 and fore-margin frayed, and with a printing error on E2v (small double impression) and E3r (two printer’s creases). Contemporary sheep (rubbed and scratched, corners bumped and lower headcap missing, pastedowns unstuck). London: for J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1693 £200 Wing G714A (British Library & Kew only UK; Barr Smith Library in ; W.A.Clark, Huntington, Wisconsin-Madison, & Yale in USA). A reissue, with cancel title, presumably of the “second” edition of 1690 (Wing G714, British Library only) as it has the same pagination. ESTC also lists an apparent, but probably misreported, variant title of this issue with no comma after “notice” in the title at W.A.Clark only [neither issue is on the UCLA online catalogue]. The first edition appeared in 1682 (Wing G712), reissued in 1683 (Wing G713). Provenance: Long and Tylney-Long family, baronets, of Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire; early ink inscription on the verso of the title “Draycot on Cerne [in Wiltshire]”. The house passed in the 19th-century to the Wellesley family, Earls of Mornington and Earls Cowley and was demolished circa 1950.

[172] GLANVILL (Joseph). A Blow at Modern Sadducism in some Philosophical Considerations about Witchcraft. And the Relation of the Famed Disturbance at the House of M. Mompesson. With Reflections on Drollery, and Atheisme. The Fourth Edition Corrected and Inlarged. Fourth Edition. 8vo. [28], 183, [13] pp. Stain in the centre of the title-page and the fore-margin of H5-L6 and the upper edge of the final few leaves. Contemporary sheep, covers ruled in blind, later long morocco label pasted onto old smooth spine (headcaps torn away, joints heavily rubbed, coners worn, knock to one edge). London: by E. Cotes for James Collins, 1668 £120 Wing G800 (+;+). First published as A Philosophical endeavour towards the defence of the being of witches and apparitions in 1666. This edition includes Glanvill’s famous investigation into the case of the Drummer of Tedworth in which John Mompesson, a local landowner, brought a lawsuit against a local drummer whom he accused of fraud. Mompesson won the case and was awarded the drum as recompense but was immediately plagued by the sound of the drum beating at night, the assumption being that the drummer had brought about the noise by witchcraft. Provenance: 1: Inscription on the title “ex libris [name illegible] ex dono Joannis Dodgsoni”. 2: William Lynn, handsome late 18th-century book-pile bookplate.

[173] GLANVILL (Jospeh). Lux Orientalis, or an Enquiry into the Opinion of the Eastern Sages, concerning the Praeexistence of Souls. Being a Key to unlock the Grand Mysteries of Providence, in relation to mans sin and misery. First Edition. Small 8vo., [40], 192 pp. Title-page soiled and stained in the upper inner corner, dampstain in the upper outer corner of the first few leaves, lightly browned throughout and some light staining in places throughout, small piece torn away from the foot of (N3) and with the flyleaves torn and creased. Contemporary sheep (spine and joints rubbed, covers a little scuffed, no pastedowns, flyleaves dusty). London: and are to be sold at Cambridge, and Oxford, 1662 £240 Wing G814 (+;+). Glanvill’s second work Lux Orientalis “drew on Plato, Origen, and Henry More to demonstrate the pre-existence of the human soul before conception” (ODNB). Provenance: 1: Thomas Dolman or Polman, contemporary signature on the front flyleaf; three marginal annotations, on D1, G3 and K3 with Greek words translated into English. 2: “Henry Godfreys Book 1801”, inscription on the second flyleaf. MAGGS BROS LTD 77

[174] GLANVILL (Joseph), RUST (George) & MORE (Henry). Two Choice and Useful Treatises: the one: Lux Orientalis; or an Enquiry into the Opinion of the Eastern Sages concerning the Praeexistence of Souls. Being a Key to unlock the Grand Mysteries of Providence. In Relation to Mans Sin and Misery. The other, a Discourse of Truth, by the late Reverend Dr. Rust Lord Bishop of Dromore in Ireland. With Annotations on them both [by Henry More]. First Combined Edition. 8vo., [48], 151, [13], 165-195, [7], 171, [7], 173-276, [4 (adverts)] pp., engraved frontispiece by William Faithorne. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind (upper joint rubbed and cracked, lower joint rubbed and cracked at head and tail, headcaps worn, label damaged, corners bumped). London: for John Collins and Sam. Lowndes, 1682 £280 Wing G833 (+;+). Rust’s Discourse of Truth was first published, with another work by Glanvill, in 1677. The copious “annotations” in this combined edition are by Henry More and comprise well-over half the volume.

PRESENTED TO THE AUTHOR’S “INGENIOUS FRIEND” [175] GLANVILL (Joseph). Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion. With a reply to the exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius. Small 4to., two parts, [36], 184, [16], 92 pp., with the longitudinal half-title, engraved vignette of the Royal Society’s coat-of- arms at the head of the dedication. Light dampstaining to a few leaves, G3-I4 more heavily dampstained, and a single dampstain in the inner margin throughout. Contemporary calf, ruled in blind (spine label missing, upper headcap torn away exposing the book block, leather split at upper joint, boards and spine a little scratched and rubbed, first flyleaf torn away and rear flyleaf part torn-away, pastedowns and flyleaves dampstained). London: by E. Cotes, for Henry Eversden, 1665 £1500 Wing G827 (+;+). This is a re-working of Glanvill’s, The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661) in which he had attacked Aristotle and praised Descartes “as an opponent of outmoded dogma, while criticizing Cartesian physics and psychology” (ODNB) in response to the Catholic priest Thomas White’s Sciri, sive sceptices & scepticorum a jure disputationis exclusio (1663) translated into English as An Exclusion of Sceptics from all Title to Dispute (1665).

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Provenance: 1: Presentation copy to Abiel Borfet, inscribed on the half-title “Ab: Borfett ex dono Authoris” [the name sctatched-out but just legible], in turn given by Borfett to another recipient whose name has also been scratched-out in another inscription just below [... e]x dono Ab: Borfett”. Abiel Borfet (1633?-1710), matriculated at Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1649 and graduated B.A. and M.A. in 1656, was chaplain to Lord Sandwich and later Minister of Richmond, Surrey (1660-1696). Errata neatly corrected. With three long ink marginal annotations on F3r, possibly by Glanvill, on the Descartesian question of the union of matter by rest and a shorter note on F4r on the question of a dry stick being more breakable than a green one. The printed text on R1v alludes to Glanvill’s “ingenious Friend” with whom he sportingly played a game of chess to resolve a philosophical point; this has been annotated in the margin “Mr Borfet of Richmond”. Two notes in Latin on C3r are in a different hand.

CONVERTING SLAVES AND NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE COLONIES [176] GODWYN (Morgan). The Negro’s & Indians Advocate, suing for their Admission into the Church: or a Persuasive to the Instructing and Baptizing of the Negro’s and Indians in our Plantations. Shewing, that as the compliance therewith can prejudice no mans just interest; so the wilful neglecting and opposing of it, is no less than a manifest Apostacy from the Christian Faith. To which is added, a brief Account of Religion in Virginia. First Edition. 8vo., [14], 112, 97-112, 129-174 pp., without the first blank leaf. Some leaves in the first few gatherings lightly foxed and soiled, light staining to the A4v, and A6v, closed tear to lower blank margin of B1, blank corner of C1 and small vertical piece of the blank fore-margin torn away without loss, but overall a very good copy. Contemporary sheep, covers ruled in blind with a floret tool in each corner, spine ruled in gilt and with a morocco label (corners slightly bumped). London: for the author by J[ohn]. D[arby], 1680 £12,000 Wing G971 (+;+). A fine, unsophisticated, copy of an important work that calls for the conversion of black Africans and Native Americans in the colonies, written during an important period of change in the composition of the population of slaves in the colonies. Virginia presented a much more complex situation than other colonies. “One factor that complicated the situation in Virginia was the presence of more than one racial minority available for conversion yet vulnerable to enslavement. Indians as well as Negroes were targets for Anglican humanitarians (and slave traders) in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and policies that affected one racial group occasionally had repercussions for the other. As one perspicacious Anglican divine [Morgan Godwyn] noted in 1680, both Negroes and Indians needed an advocate to MAGGS BROS LTD 79

promote their spiritual welfare, a role that the Church of England cautiously took up ... As far as the Anglican Church was concerned, both Indians and blacks were heathen infidels to whom the solace of Christ should be offered, especially because both minorities were victims of enslavement by whites. Even though Indian slavery became negligible by the 1730s, when the black population began reproducing itself, the church’s attitude towards slavery was largely determined by its earlier efforts (and failures) at infidel conversion - efforts that, because of demography and certain accidents of historical circumstance, were directed primarily at Virginia’s Indian population” (Anesko, Michael “So Discreet a Zeal: Slavery and the Anglican Church in Virginia, 1680-1730” in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Virginia Historical Society, 1985. pp. 248-9. It is interesting to note that Godwyn did not object to the enslavement of Africans in the colonies but rather his concern was for the spiritual welfare of slaves - in fact he regarded them as spiritual equals - and took the controversial step of encouraging the Christian conversion of slaves. Godwyn had emigrated to Virginia in 1666 and it was here that he first began his campaign which eventually upset his parishioners and forced him to continue his missionary work in Barbados. His views received very much the same reception in Barbados and he returned to England in either 1679 or 1680. It was during his time in the colonies that he began working on pamphlets such as this one (ODNB). Appended to The Negro’s & Indians advocate is a an account of “The state of religion in Virginia”. The short work (7pp.) discusses the lack of religious structure and observance. According to the author, circumstances have become so dire that: “it is most certain that there are many families who have never been present at any public exercise of religion since their incorporation into that colony [i.e. Virginia]” (168). In 1681 Godwyn published a 12 page Supplement to the Negro’s [and] Indians advocate. (Wing G973) Provenance: Edward Joshua Cooper (1798-1863), of Markee Castle, Co. Sligo, Ireland, bookplate to front pastedown and small blue mid-nineteenth century Markree Castle library label with shelf mark and later label marking the 1913 re-arrangement of the library by Bryan Cooper.

WITH EXTENSIVE CONTEMPORARY ANNOTATIONS [177] GOEDAERT (Johannes). [LISTER (Martin), translator]. Of Insects. Done into English, and Methodized, with the Addition of Notes. The Figures Etched upon Copper by Mr. F[rancis]. Pl[ace]. First Edition. Small 4to., [6], 140 pp., lacking the errata leaf, fourteen folding etched plates (small rust-hole in one plate), without the first blank leaf. Title-page lightly soiled, stained throughout (gatherings B, C, L and M most affected) by what appear (appropriately) to have been insects pressed between the leaves. Contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco label (small hole to front cover exposing board, joints split at head and foot, label chipped and corners bumped). York: by John White, for M. L, 1682 £1500 Wing F302 (+;+). An important translation with numerous detailed engravings of various insects by the Royal Society fellow Martin Lister. This is a noteworthy copy with extensive annotations to the printed text and engraved plates bound at the rear [see below]. Lister explains in his preface that due to the high cost of producing a book with so many engravings he has been forced to limit the print run to 150 copies “intended only for the curious” (A4). Lister studied at Cambridge before embarking on a series of research trips across Europe. Whilst travelling he became acquainted with John Ray, the two were close and their correspondence lasted more than ten years. On his return to England, and upon starting a family, Lister settled in York where he met Francis Place, the ‘Mr. F. Pl.’ who is responsible for the copper engravings in this work. As well as writing to Ray, Lister was also corresponding with Henry Oldenburg and several of these letters were published in the Philosophical Transactions. On moving to London in 1683 he became increasingly involved with the Royal Society and was eventually named vice-president in 1685 under the presidency of Samuel Pepys. Many of the plates in this work resemble those of Hooke’s famous Mircrographia; unlike Hooke, though, Lister did not use a microscope for his observation of insects as he believed it to be “disrespectful of the ancients” (ODNB). The anonymous annotations and markings appear on nearly every page of the text. More often than not, they correct errors in the printed text. However, they also collate the text with the earlier Latin edition. For example, on page 33 when the printed text describes the colouring of male and female caterpillars, the anonymous annotator has added the following in the margin: “In ye Lat. Ed. ye females are sd. to want ye eyes”. Provenance: 1: Contemporary inscription on the title in English, Latin and Greek: “[Godartius] Who, (I heare,) had studied ym 40 years, as Aristomachus Solensis, did (one sort of ym,) viz. Bees, for 58 years. ... A 2d Edit. of this work, cum appendice ad hist. animalium Anglice by Dr Lister wth 2 plates more of Ericas, & 4. of English Beetles is mentioned. Philosoph. Transact. Vol. 14. Num. 166. Decemb. 1684.” with quotes from Pliny and and Aristotle. There are a number of neat annotations throughout. 2: James Y. Nevill, 19th-century engraved label on the front pastedown. 3: George Gregory, bookseller, Bath, typewritten response from the British Museum, regarding the number of plates, dated 12th December 1958, loosely inserted. 80 MAGGS BROS LTD MAGGS BROS LTD 81

[178] GOODALL (Charles). Poems and Translations, written upon several Occasions, and to several Persons. By a late Scholar of Eaton. First Edition. 8vo., [16 (A1 with imprimatur on verso, A 8 with errata on verso)], 168 pp. Small hole from a paper-flaw to margin of A4, old dusty strip to the fore-margin of the recto of the blank errata leaf with worming to upper inner margin from K7 to the end. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind (upper headcap missing, joints and spine rubbed) London: for Henry Bonwicke,1689 £280 Wing G1092 (+;+). Goodall was the son of an eminent physician, also named Charles, and a student at Merton College, Oxford. This posthumous collection of his “rude and unpolish’d poems” includes various translations (Ovid, Catullus), a piece dedicated to Dryden and a number of poems addressed to the idealized Idera. Provenance: 1: Sir William Eden, probably the 7th & 5th Bart. (1849-1915), with armorial bookplate.

[179] GRANVILLE (George, Lord Lansdowne). The She-Gallants: a Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Little- Lincoln-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty’s Servants. First Edition. Small 4to., [8], 75, [1] pp., with the half-title. Some light spotting and soiling throughout. 19th-century half calf and boards. London: for Henry Playford, and Benj. Cooke, 1696 £250 Wing L423 (+;+). Pforzheimer 423. Apparently written by Lansdowne at the age of fifteen but not performed until 1695. The play was not well received, especially by the ladies in the audience. Provenance: Sotheby’s, 6th December, 1944 lot 716 “property of a gentleman”, bought by Maggs for £4-5s and sold in Maggs catalogue 775 (English Plays Prior to 1800), item 275 to JSC. Pencil note to the front pastedown by JSC, one time hairdresser, noting a reference to hair in Act III, Scene I.

[180] GRATIUS FALISCUS. Grati Falisci Cynegeticon. Or, a Poem of Hunting by Gratius the Faliscian. Englished and illustrated by Christopher Wase gent. First Edition in English. 12mo., [94], 86 pp. Margins browned throughout and with a paper flaw affecting a couple of lines of text on C6 and C7. 19th-century brown morocco, front board with the gilt crest of Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim. London: for Charles Adams, 1654 £180 Wing G1581 (British Library, Bodley, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland and Queen’s University Belfast; Huntington, Newberry, Harvard, Columbia, Folger, Yale). A parallel Latin-English translation of Gratius’s hunting poem by the schoolmaster and scholar Christopher Wase. The poem is prefaced by a 3pp dedicatory poem by Sir Edmund Waller. Wase was a relative and friend of John Evelyn. Provenance: 1: Nathaniel Clements, 2nd. Earl of Leitrim (1768-1854), with gilt crest and motto on the front cover. 2: Two old bookseller’s notes have been pasted to the rear flyleaf.

[181] The Great Bastard, Protector of the Little One. Done out of French. And for which a Proclamation with a Reward of 5000 Lewedores, to discover the Author, was Publish’d. First Edition. Small 4to., [4], 28 pp., with the half-title. Dark staining to the upper corners of C1-2, small repairs to the lower corner of B3 and the fore-margin of the final leaf. Early 20th-century half red morocco and marbled boards. “Printed at Cologne” [i.e. London], 1689 £120 Wing G1663 but not distinguishing the variants. ESTC records Cambridge, Durham University & Folger only of this edition with no comma after “which” in the title, 4 type ornaments arranged in a rectangular pattern on the title-page and with the “B” signature of B1 under the “da” of “days”. There is another 28pp edition (more common) and a 16pp edition (Congregational Library & Huntington only). 82 MAGGS BROS LTD

An anonymous and surreptitiously printed pamphlet which jointly questions the paternities of Louis XIV (said to be the son of a Monsieur Le Grand as the King was impotent) and the infant James Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales, later “Old Pretender”.

[182] GREW (Nehemiah). Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or, a Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham College. … Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomach and Guts. First Edition. Folio. [12], 386, [2 (index)], [2 (blank)], [2 (subtitle)], 43, [1 (blank)]pp. 30 [of 32] engraved plates, lacking the portrait of the dedicatee Daniel Colwall, and the folding plate. Title-page creased, lightly browned, upper margins dusty, short marginal tear in Ddd1. Contemporary sprinkled calf, upper board gilt stamped “I*PHELIPPS* / Y*”, marbled edges (very worn, front joint split and cover loose, lower joint rubbed and split at head and tail and with a small loss from insect damage below the second band, covers rubbed and scuffed, insect damage along the lower edge of the front cover and to a small area on the back cover, spine label missing, lower headcap and foot of spine torn-away; front flyleaf missing). London: printed by W. Rawlins for the author, 1681 £500 Wing G1952 (+;+). LeFanu, Grew, p. 109ff. With all the ink corrections on p. 62 (alters “the Phrygians” to “Imbroyderers”), 81, 177, three on p. 239 (the main corrections alters “The Aromatick Tuber” to “A Negro Glyster bag”), 312 & 343 as found in all copies as listed by LeFanu except that on p. 181 where LeFanu states that “Corinthian” is altered to “Dorick” but here “Dorick” is the printed version. The book was a slow seller and LeFanu notes five issues, the last in 1694. A poor copy, but of an otherwise expensive book. A description of the “wunderkammer” or cabinet of curiosities belonging to the Royal Society, of which only a few items have survived. The bulk of the collection, derived from the “rarities belonging to Mr. Hubbard” acquired with funds donated by Daniel Colwall, a founder member of the Society and its Treasurer (1665 to 1679), conforms to the traditional type, such as that of the Tradescants which became the Ashmolean Museum, with the usual collection of natural and artificial curiosities, from armadilloes to rattle-snakes, shells, minerals, as well as an eskimo canoe, a tomahawk, snow-shoes, and much, much more. More importantly and in tune with the new age of scientific discovery the sections “Of Instruments relating to Natural Philosophy” and “Of Things relating to the Mathematicks; and some Mechanicks” include such things as Boyle’s air-pump, Wren’s rain-gauge, many of Hooke’s inventions and Newton’s reflecting telescope. In many cases the name of the donor is recorded and a list of donors headed by Prince Rupert is printed at the end of the catalogue. In the second part Grew presents his conclusions from his comparative study of the digestive system of a large number of different animals, birds and fish which are illustrated on the last nine plates. Provenance: 1: Ink signature “John Walkinson” at the head of the title. 2: Rev. John Phelips (d. 1766, aged 39), Vicar of Yeovil 1756-66, of Newton Surmaville, Yeovil, Somerset; 2nd son of , of House, Somerset, with his name “I*PHELIPPS* / Y*” in gilt on the front cover. The remains of the family library at Newton Surmaville was finally sold at auction in 2007, but this, and other volumes in our previous Stevens-Cox catalogues, were sold several decades ago.

[183] GUARINI (Giovanni Battista). [FANSHAWE (Sir Richard)], translator. Il Pastor Fido, the faithful shepherd. A pastorall [...] new translated out of the original. First Edition in English. Small 4to. [10], 223 pp., engraved portrait of Guarini by Thomas Cross (slightly soiled) and an engraved plate of the river God Alfeo (a2r). Stain in the margin of D1, dampstain in the lower corner of K1-4, corner of R2-3, S1, V2-V4 (heavier), blank upper corner of (a)1 torn-away, and with fore-margins of the final sheet slightly frayed. Mid-19th-century half black calf and marbled boards (joints and headcaps rubbed, corners worn, inside joints cracked). London: by R. Raworth, 1647 £275 Wing G2174 (+;+) Provenance: Newman Smith, mid-19th-century armorial bookplate. MAGGS BROS LTD 83

[184] GUARINI (Giovanni Battista). FANSHAWE (Sir Richard), translator. Il Pastor Fido: The Faithful Shepherd. With an Addition of divers other Poems: Concluding with a short Discourse of the Long Civil Wars of Rome. Third Edition. 8vo., [22], 240, 251-321, [1 (blank)] pp., without the first blank leaf. A little browned and foxed in places (B-C, and E), single dark stains to S7 and T4, and with a small piece missing from the corner of E2 (just touching catchword). Contemporary calf, gilt spine (badly worn, headcaps missing, corners bumped, and joints split, flyleaves missing, early 19th-century green paper pastedowns). London: for Henry Herringman,1676 £120 Wing G2117 (+;+). Provenance: 1: “H. fforde 1766”, signature at head of A3. 2. “Edward Dalton Esqre, D.C.L. LL.D. F.S.A.” (1787-1877), of Dunkirk House, Nailesworth, Gloucestershire, with letterpress book-label.

[185] GUILLIM (John). A Display of Heraldrie: manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method; [...] Interlaced with much variety of History, suitable to the severall Occasions or Subjects. The fourth Edition. Corrected and much enlarged by the Author himselfe in his life time: Together with his own Addition of explaining the tearms of Hawking and Hunting, for the use and delight of Gentlemen. And now to this fourth Edition are added about three new Coats and Bearings of eminent Families, in their proper Sections, never before inserted. [...] Faithfully collected by Francis Nower Arms-Painter (and Student in Heraldry) in Bartholomew Lane, London. Fourth Edition. Folio., [16], 402, [4], 403-409, 409-410, 412-432, 435-144[i.e. 444], 36, [6] pp., numerous woodcut coats of arms throughout. Light browning, particularly in the margins, lower outer corner of Iii1 missing from a paper flaw; fore-margins occasionaly a little ragged (some insect damage to the outer margin of B4). Contemporary sprinkled calf, covers ruled in blind (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves). London: by T[homas]. R[oycroft]. for Jacob Blome, 1660 £200 Wing G2219A (+;+). Variant imprint with “Jacob” rather than Robert Blome in the imprint. Guillim began writing The Display in 1595 with the first edition being published in 1611. The book comprised 283 folio pages and over 500 woodcut shields (subsequent editions - such as this one - were expanded). Guillim’s work “was to remain the standard textbook on English heraldry until the second half of the eighteenth century, and it is still regularly used by working heralds in the twenty-first century” (ODNB). “The Display, which quotes earlier English and continental writers, is divided into six sections of which the first commences with the origins of heraldry, the second contains the basic divisions of the shield, the third and largest describes natural as compared to man-made charges, which are in the fourth section, the fifth has patterned coats without a predominant tincture, and the sixth deals with marshalling of arms.” (ODNB). Provenance: Deleted signature “Edvardi Barell” on the title-page and one single word annotation (presumably by Barell) in the lower fore-corner of D1r.

[186] HALE (Sir Matthew). A Short Treatise touching Sheriffs Accompts. To which is added, A Tryal of Witches, at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds, for the County of Suffolk, on the 10th of March 1664, before the said Sir , Kt. First Edition. 8vo., [8], 110; [4], 59, [1] pp. Damp-staining to inner margins A1-E2 and D1-E6, small rust spot to C8 (just touching text). Contemporary blind ruled sheep (broken, loose in case, boards detached, corners bumped). London: printed and are to be sold by Will. Shrowsbery, 1683 £250 Wing H260 (+;+). “Duke-Lane” variant of Shrowsbery’s address in the imprint - the other variant is “Duck-Lane”. The second part is a reprint of the account of the infamous 1662 Bury St Edmunds witch trial A tryal ofWitches first published in 1682 and has a separate title page Provenance: G. Helyar, of Coker Court, Somerset, with armorial bookplate. 84 MAGGS BROS LTD

[187] [HALE (Sir Matthew) A Tryal of Witches, at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds for the county of Suffolk [...] before Sir Matthew Hale Kt. then Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer. First Edition. 8vo., [4], 59, [1] pp. Spotted in places and with some red chalk marginal markings. Early 19th-century half russia and marbled boards (edges worn, joints cracking, piece knocked from the head of the spine, endleaves affected by damp). London: for William Shrewsbery, 1682 £650 Wing T2240 (+;+). A vivid account of the infamous Bury St. Edmunds witchcraft trials which records the trial of two elderly widows - Rose Cullender and Amy Duny - in 1662 (erroneously recorded as 1664 on the title-page). Hale presided over the trial which found both women guilty and condemned them to death. The notable physician Sir Thomas Browne was called as an expert witness at the trial due to his investigation into popular superstitions in Pseudodoxia epidemica (1646). Browne, described as “a person of great knowledge”, offered the opinion that the women were guilty of “co-operating with the malice of these which we term witches” (41-42). The Salem Witch Trials of the early 1690s were conducted along the same lines of those held in Bury St Edmunds, and Cotton Mather draws attention to them in his The wonders of the invisible world (1693). Provenance: Edward Place, with early 19th-century bookplate and signature on the title. Sir Francis Freeling (1764-1836), postal reformer and bibliophile, with armorial bookplate (name scratched-out).

THREE RARE WORKS RELATING TO SHIPBUILDING & THE BRITISH NAVY [188] HALE (Thomas). An Account of several New Inventions and Improvements now necessary for England, in a Discourse by way of Letter to the Earl of Marlbourgh, relating to Building of our English Shipping, Planting of Oaken Timber in the Forrests, Apportioning of Publick Taxes, the Conservacy of all our Royal Rivers, in particular that of the Thames, the Surveys of the Thames, &c. Herewith is also published at large the Proceedings relating to the Mill’d lead-sheathing, and the Excellency and cheapness of Mill’d-Lead in preference to Cast sheet-Lead for all other purposes whatsoever. Also a Treatise of Naval Philosopy, written by Sir Will. Petty. The whole is submitted to the Consideration of our English Patriots in Parliament Assembled. First Edition. 12mo., [16 (first leaf imprimatur)], cxxv, [19], 132 pp., plus two folding folio leaves (“A Survey of the Buildings and Encroachments on the River of Thames”). Front flyleaves damp-stained, lower edges occasionally uncut. Contemporary sprinkled calf, panelled in blind, paper label in the top panel of the spine (foot of spine chewed, upper joint cracking at foot exposing the stitching, corners bumped and covers scuffed). London: for James Astwood, and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson, 1691 £2500 Wing H265 (+;+). A plan for the extending of Britain’s power at sea by increasing the supply of natural materials required for ship building. Milled or rolled lead sheeting, formed by extrusion between rollers, rather than sand-casting as before, has remained the main form of production to today. The two folding folio leaves, a survey of the buildings and encroachments on the river of Thames, dated 20 Octob. 1684, 2ff., printed on the rectos only is usually bound-in but is also listed separately as Wing S6198. It is a remarkable list of the buildings on the north and south banks of the Thames that encroach into the river, mostly private wharves and jetties. A facsimile of this was published, but not widely distributed by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1989. [Bound with]: HALE (Charles). [A] Proposition demonstrated. That Mill’d lead is a better covering for churchs. London: March 26th. 1694. Broadside (folded). First letter of the title cropped-off and one side-note slightly shaved. Wing H221 (British Library & Yale [damaged] only). A facsimile of this was published by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1989. [Bound with]: HALE (Thomas). Mill’d lead, demonstrated to be a better and more durable Covering for Buildings, &c. and above. London: 20 November, 1695. Folio (folded)., 4 pp. Very light dampstain along the upper edge. Wing H265B (British Library, Cambridge, Goldsmiths’ Library in UK; Folger & Huntington in USA). This very rare work champions the use of lead sheet as a protective covering for buildings and ships. In the case of the latter, lead sheets “stiffens a ship so, that she will bear more sail, and is an undeniable security against the worm, without any hindrance to sailing, which the great thickness and roughness of a wood sheating must obstruct” (4). A facsimile of this was published by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1989. MAGGS BROS LTD 85

This work has been annotated by Charles Kemeys (1651-1702) in three places. The most interesting annotation relates to the lead sheets: “The lead sh[eet] is not 4 p[er] cent more than the other at first charge” (blank margin of p. 4). Kemeys’s annotation indicates that the true cost of the lead sheets was far different than Hale claims. He also humorously adds to Hale’s printed text “There is, besides the constant Imployment of this mill’d-lead about houses” his own observation “especially by such as lay out their own money” (4). Provenance: Charles Kemeys, signature on the flyleaf and initials and repeated signature on the title-page, probably Sir Charles Kemeys, 3rd. Bart. (1651-1702), of Cefu Mabley, Co. Glamorgan, Wales, with signature and initials on the title-page and a short note F12r reading “upon occasion of the merchants shipps lately sheathed with milld lead, the sheet at the end [Mill’d lead demonstrated - see note above] was published in Nov. 1695 for ye satisfaction & encouragement of others”; by descent to the Tynte family, Baronets (extinct 1785) and Kemeys-Tynte family of Halsewell, Somerset.

THE MEDICAL CASE NOTES OF SHAKESPEARE’S SON-IN-LAW [189] HALL (John). Select Observations on English Bodies of Eminent Persons in desperate Diseases. First written in Latin by Mr. John Hall, Physician: After Englished by James Cook, Author of the Marrow of Chirurgery. To which is now added, an hundred like Counsels and Advices for several Honourable Persons; with all the Several Medicines and Methods by which the several Cures, by the blessing of God, were effected; and they be of great use to several Practitioners in Physick and others: By the same Author. In the close is added, directions for drinking of the Bath-Water, and Ars Cosmetica, or Beautifying Art: by H. Stubbs, Physician at Warwick. 8vo., [32], 350, [2] pp., engraved portrait of James Cook by R. White. Slightly foxed throughout, some minor worming to the lower fore-corner. Contemporary sheep (worn and broken; book-block beginning to detach from the binding, lower cover almost detached, covers scuffed and two strips torn from the lower cover; no front endleaves, rear pastedown unstuck). London: for William Marshall, 1683 £350 Wing H358 (+ in UK; Huntington, U.S. National Library of Medicine, University of Rochester, Toronto and McGill). Reissue of the second edition of 1679 (Wing H357; +,+) with a cancel title. John Hall (1574/5?-1635), a physician, married William Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna on the 5th June 1607. Her father gave them 105 acres of land in Stratford as a wedding gift and Hall was one of the executors of his will. A collection of Hall’s case notes sold to the Warwick surgeon James Cooke who translated them into English were published in 1657 and reprinted in 1679. They were subsequently owned by David Garrick and Edmond Malone and were acquired by the British Museum in 1868 (see ODNB). “For the years 1611-35 Hall recorded the details of 155 patients he attended, including paupers, tradesmen, clerics, gentry, and the grandest aristocracy. Thus he treated the earl and countess of Northampton, Lady Sandys, Sir Simon Clark, Lady Jenkinson, and Lady Rous, as well as the staff of great households. Hall was a known puritan and at this time the town of Stratford was sharply divided between a strong puritan element and an opposing papist group. ... Nearly two- thirds of the patients whose cases he noted were females, many with widespread kin connections, but he treated very few children. ... Hall usually recorded patients’ details, including their age, status, place of residence, symptoms, and medications; he selected cases of medical interest and with a successful outcome.” - ODNB. Provenance: 1: Ink inscriptions in an 18th-century hand on the verso of the flyleaf: “Tis true Physitians by their skill / may make the sickly body sound, / but yet against the stroak of death / no herbs nor cordial can be found”. On the rear flyleaf is the appropriate Latin proverb “contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis” [against the power of death there is no medicine in the garden] and below “All the physitians by their skill / may make our sickly Bodies sound / but yet against the stroak of death / no food nor physick can be found. / me autore W.B.” (repeated twice) and a recipe for a “thick balsam of sulphur” that is known to have “cured very desperate coughs” copied from p. 276. 2: Pencil note by JSC on the reverse of the portrait: “Dr Roberts copy Bridport”.

[190] HARINGTON (John). The History of Polindor and Flostella. With other poems: by J.H. Esq; The second Edition corrected and inlarged. 8vo. [4], 114pp. Lacking the engraved frontispiece by John Droeshout (the stub remains) and probably the final blank (?or errata leaf) H4. A little grubby in places, sheet A coming loose, dampstain to corners of G5-7, lower corners creased. Contemporary sheep (spine worn, covers rubbed, corners worn, small patch of leather at the front fore-edge chewed away, no pastedowns). London: by Tho: Roycroft for Tho: Dring, 1652 £900 This edition not in Wing. ESTC records the Bodley copy only. 86 MAGGS BROS LTD

The first edition (Roycroft for Dring, 1651, Wing H772, British Library, Bodley, V&A [ex Dyce]; W.A. Clark, Harvard, Huntington [ex Hoe], Newberry, Harvard & Wellesley College) has an engraved frontispiece as A1. This copy has no frontispiece and has the title as A1. It is a line-for-line reprint only as far as p.9. The main text ends on p. 91 (p. 79 in the 1st edn). The third edition “revised and much enlarged” (Roycroft for Dring, 1657, Wing H773, Harvard, Illinois, University of Pennsylvania & Yale only) has the frontispiece and 194pp. (the main text ends on p. 160) plus an errata leaf. A long pastoral love poem. Provenance: Contemporary inscription “Lib [...]” smudged out on the title, pen-trial inside the back cover starting “The Right Honorable ...”.

[191] [HARVEY (Christopher)]. The Synagogue or, the Shadow of the Temple. Sacred poems and private ejaculations. In imitation of Mr. George Herbert. The second Edition, corrected and enlarged. Second Edition. 12mo., [2], 46, [16]pp. Browned, type-ornament border at foot of title and catchword on p.20 shaved. Mid-20th- century sheep, tooled in blind (small scratch to back cover). London: by J[ohn]. L[egate] for Philemon Stephens,1647 £180 Wing H1045 (+;+). Pforzheimer 450. Often bound with later editions of George Herbert’s The Temple. “This edition contains the ‘Church Utensils’ as well as eleven additional poems none of which had appeared in the first edition, 1640.” - Pforzheimer.

[192] HARVEY (William). Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam de Partu: de Membrania ac humoribus Uteri: & de Conceptione. 12mo., 568, [6] pp., with the additional engraved title-page. Book-block beginning to split at p. 289 & 313, endleaves stained by the turn-ins. Contemporary English calf, covers ruled in blind and with a small thistle tool in each corner, smooth spine ruled in blind, fragment of English manuscript binder’s waste at the front (joints rubbed and slightly cracked at the foot, pastedowns unstuck). Amsterdam: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1651 £500 Keynes, Harvey, no. 36. The issue for sale on the continent with Elzevier’s name on the engraved title - the English issue has the London bookseller Octavian Pulleyn’s name. Three editons were published in Amsterdam in the same year as the first edition - a quarto printed in London: “The publishers responsible were Elzevier, Jansson, and Ravestyn. It is usually assumed that the Elzevier edition was the first of these; it is certainly the most elegant, and part of the edition carries on the engraved frontispiece the imprint of Pulleyn, the publisher of the quarto edition, no doubt being intended for the English market.” - Keynes. Provenance: “A. Smith”, inscribed on the inside of the front cover, two notes in the margin of B11v: “Shri[m]ps, Crebicei. Lobsters” and “Carp.” and name “Harbin” on the front flyleaf - from the Harbin family library at Newton Surmaville, Somerset. Many books remained at Newton Surmaville until the house sale by Lawrence’s on 8/10/2007 but the present volume was sold, with many others, in the 1960s.

[193] HEEREBOORD (Adrianus). Philosophia Naturalis, cum Commentariis Peripateticis antehac edita. Nunc vero Hac- Posthuma Editione mediam Partem aucta, & novis Commentariis, parte e Nob. D. Cartesio, Cl. Berigardo, H. Regio, aliisque praestantioribus Philosophis, petitis, partim ex propria opinione dictatis, Explicata. 8vo. [2], 323, [7] pp. Small hole to A2, tiny piece torn away from the corner of O1, light staining to P1 and Tt2, and with a 20mm closed tear to Tt1 (just touching text). Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind (joints worn). Oxford: Typis Hen. Hall, Prostant venales apud Joh. Wilmot & Joh. Crosley, 1676 £300 Wing H1365 (+ in UK; W.A. Clark, Harvard, Huntington, Illinois & Yale in USA). Madan, Oxford Books, III, no. 3107, a close reprint of the 1665 and 1668 Oxford editions “except that it omits the prefatory matter (not the Praecognita), and the added treatise (Consilium)”. A Latin treatise on Natural Philosophy explained “not only in terms of Aristotle and the Peripatetics but also of Descartes and other moderns” (Madan) by the scholar Adrian Heereboord (d. 1659), first published at Leiden in 1665 and a standard text for students. Provenance: 1: W[illia]m and Mary Harvey, early signatures on the front flyleaf. 2: JSC’s pencil note “Cox Bacon see back Keep”. MAGGS BROS LTD 87

[194] [HEGGE (Robert)]. BADDELEY (Richard), editor. The Legend of St. Cuthbert. With the Antiquities of the Church of Durham. By B.R. esq. First Edition. 8vo., [10], 93 pp., without the final blank leaf. Engraved portrait of St Cuthbert. Title-page lightly browned and soiled, blank corner of D1 torn-away just touching the catchword, paper flaw to the lower blank margin of F4, some occasional light spotting or soiling. Contemporary sheep, covers ruled in blind, red morocco spine label and a 19th-century paper label to spine (spine rubbed and very lightly chipped, worming to front cover). London: for Christopher Eccleston, 1663 £550 Wing H1370 (+;+) Originally written by the Durham antiquary Robert Hegge (1597?-1629), this treatise was seen through the press by Richard Baddeley, secretary to Thomas Morton the Bishop of Durham. Hegge’s work discusses the history and relics of the cathedral and is full of anecdotes involving its most important personages. The work also describes the sorrowful state of the cathedral library at the time, a place that “once was a little Vatican of choise manuscripts, but now rather a bibliotaphion, than a library ... for since the art of printing was invented, whereby men after a more cheap way could attaine to some superficial learning; old manuscripts were bequeathed to the mothes: and pigeons, and Jack-dawes became the only students in church libraries” (43). Provenance: 1: George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, with his purchase note “Gill, July 1909” on the endpaper and bookplate; his library sold at Sotheby’s 1914 and 1917. 2: Maggs Bros., with early cost code at the end.

[195] HELMONT (Jan Baptista van). CHARLETON (Robert), translator. A Ternary of Paradoxes. The Magnetick Cure of Wounds. Nativity of Tartar in Wine. Image of God in Man. Written originally by Joh. Bapt. Van Helmont, and Translated, Illustrated, and Ampliated by Walter Charleton, Doctor in Physick, and Physician to the late King. The second Impression, more reformed, and enlarged with some Marginal Additions. Second Edition in English. Small 4to., [52], 147, [1] pp., additional letterpress title-page with a large engraved vignette of a hand holding a magnifying glass lighting incense on an with light from the sun with Charleton’s arms at the sides. Damp-staining to the first four leaves, slight worming to the fore and lower edges of A1-A4 and to the centre of S3-Bb4 expanding to a 15mm trail affecting the text on T3-Z3, N1-O4 lightly browned. Mid-20th-cenury quarter black morocco and marbled boards (boards slightly bowed, edges rubbed). London: by James Flesher for William Lee, 1650 £340 Wing H1402 (+;+). [Bound with:] HELMONT (Jan Baptista van). Deliramenta Catarrhi: or, the Incongruities, Impossibilities, and Absurdities couched under the Vulgar Opinion of Defluxions. First Edition in English. [12], 75, [1] pp. Two small worm holes in the centre of A1-K1, final three leaves damp stained. London: E.G. for William Lee, 1650. Wing H1398 (+;+). Jean Baptiste van Helmont (1579-1644), a pioneering alchemist, mystic and physician, worked in the years just after the death of Paracelsus. Much of van Helmont’s work utilized iatrochemistry, a branch of medicine related to alchemy, which sought chemical solutions for medical ailments. While his theoretical approach to medicine was heavily influenced by earlier traditions of alchemy, he, unlike many of his contemporaries like Robert Fludd, adopted many tenets of “New Science” such as empirical observation and experimentation. These works constitute the first appearance of van Helmont in English. Provenance: Early initials “R:E” on the title. Contemporary five-line Latin quote in ink in the margin of Aa4v: “Cum igitur proprie rationari non sit, ...” from Francisco Vallés [Franciscus Vallesius], De sacra philosophia, and a note in the margin of B3r of the second work “Positions granted in ye schools. viz. yt confute yir owne practise & theory”.

[196] HERBERT (Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury). Expeditio In Ream Insulam. [...] Anno MDCXXX. Quam publici Juris fecit Timothaeus Balduiinus, LL. Doctor e Coll. Omn. Anim apud Oxonienses, Socius. First Edition. 8vo., [30], 176, [24] pp. Lightly browned throughout, small hole to B1 from a weakness in the paper around the watermark, rust-spot on K3, C4-5 loose. Contemporary limp vellum (covers stained, including a ring from a cup, spine soiled and label missing, top third of the front flyleaf torn-away, presumably to remove an inscription). London: apud Humphredum Moseley, 1656 £300 88 MAGGS BROS LTD

Wing H1503 (+;+). Lord Herbert’s commentaries on Buckingham’s Expedition to the Ile de of Rhé in a failed attempt to relieve the siege of La Rochelle. This work was not published in English until printed by the Earl of Powis for the Philobiblon Society in 1860. Provenance: 1: Illegible ink inscription on the pastedown. 2: Rev. Samuel Parr (1747-1825), schoolmaster and book collector, with letterpress label (inverted) on the rear pastedown.

[197] HERBERT (Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury). The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth. First Edition. Small Folio. [12], 79, 90-203, [19], 185-404, 369-575, [11] pp., engraved frontispiece portrait by Thomas Cecill. Small closed tear to the portrait, occasional light browning to a few leaves. Contemporary mottled calf (recently rebacked, modern endpapers). London: Printed by E.G. for Thomas Whitaker 1649 £200 Wing H1504 (+;+), Pforzheimer 463. Provenance: 1: “John Flet[c]her”, contemporary signature on the recto of the title-page scribbled over by a later owner. 2: Johnstone family of Westerhall, Dumfries, Scotland, late 18th-century armorial bookplate.

[198] HEYRICK (Thomas). Miscellany Poems. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], xxii, 112, [4], 67, [1] pp. Title and following few leaves soiled and stained, light dampstaining throughout, a (50mm) closed tear to gathering Aa and corner of Y1 torn away. Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves). Cambridge: by John Hayes, for the Author, 1691 £475 Wing H1753 (+;+). A collection of poems mainly, but not exclusively, on the subject of fishing and hunting by the great-nephew of the Poet Robert Herrick and curate of St Dionysius, Market Harborough, Leicestershire and master of the Grammar School there. The final 67-page poem (with a separate title-page), ‘The Submarine Voyage’, is an imaginary account of Neptune’s underwater court.

[199] HOBBES (Thomas). Hobbs’s Tripos, in Three Discourses: the first, Humane Nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policy. Being a Discovery of the Faculties, Acts and Passions of the Soul of Man, from their Original Causes, according to such Philiosophical Principles as are not commonly known, or asserted. The second, De Corpore Politico, or the Elements of Law, Moral and Politick, with Discourses upon several Heads, as of the Law of Nature, Oaths and Covenants; several kinds of Governments, with the Changes and Revolutions of them. The third, Of Liberty and Necessity; wherein all Controversie, concerning Predestination, Election, Free-will, Grace, Merits, Reprobation, is fully decided and cleared. “Third [i.e. First Collected] Edition”. 8vo., [14], 317, [3 (adverts)] pp., A1 blank pasted-down inside the front cover. Leaves A2-B6 spotted in the inner margin, rust-mark to centre of K6, 20mm split from a paper flaw in G2 across four lines of text, and a closed tear to margin of M4. Contemporary calf with six panel spine and red morocco label (joints and edges rubbed, lower joint cracked at the head, single worm-hole at the head of the upper joint, corners bumped, covers crazed by the mottling acid). London: for Matt[hew]. Gilliflower, Henry Rogers, and Tho. Foxe,1684 £350 Wing H2266 (+;+). MacDonald & Hargreaves, Hobbes, no. 103. The first two parts were first published separately in 1650 and the third in 1654. Provenance: This copy has been used circa 1800 for pressing flowers, mostly geraniums. A loosely inserted manuscript slip records the names of various plants with a corresponding page number; many of these specimens are still preserved in the book. Amazingly these inserts do not seem to have stained the pages at all. On the verso of the slip the name “George Strickland Edinburgh” has been written (the name repeated twice) with a list of ?debts including one to “Sir David Hume” and others to Forbes, Hunter, & Blair. MAGGS BROS LTD 89

[200] HOBBES (Thomas). Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie. Being a Discoverie of the Faculties, Acts, and Passions of The Soul of Man, from their original causes; According to such Philosophical Principles as are not commonly known or asserted. First Edition. 12mo., [16 of 18], 170, [2 (Latin poem by Ralph Bathurst)] pp., without the first blank leaf. Title-page stained and torn at the fore-edge (just touching one letter), with a small hole in the inner margin, second leaf soiled, closely shaved at the foot cropping a number of signatures and catchwords, margins rather grubby/browned throughout, leaf F1 stained. Contemporary sheep ruled in blind (heavily worn, covers rubbed, joints split but holding, headcaps torn). London: by T. Newcomb, for Fra. Bowman of Oxon., 1650 £700 Wing H2242 (+ in UK; W.A. Clark, Folger, Harvard, Kansas, Newberry, Toronto, & Yale). Madan, Oxford Books, II, no. 2021, Macdonald & Hargreaves, Hobbes, no. 15. Written by 9 May 1640 (the date of the dedication to the Earl of Newcastle) and initially circulated in manuscript. The first thirteen chapters of the first part of The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. The rest of the first part and the second part were published as De Corpore Politico in the same year. “Starting with an account of human psychology and a powerful analysis of the origins (and the necessity) of the state, it mounted a strong defence of royal authority in such matters as the imposition of taxation. Hobbes’s name was now in circulation as a hardline theorist of royal absolutism. When the Long Parliament began to debate these issues in November 1640 such views came under fierce attack. Hobbes, who was staying in London at the time, hurriedly packed his bags and travelled to Paris.” - ODNB. Provenance: A small label has been (largely) removed from the front pastedown.

[201] HOLDER (William). A Discourse Concerning Time, with Application of the Natural Day, and Lunar Month, and Solar Year, as Natural; and of such as are derived from them, as Artificial Parts of Time, for Measures in Civil and Common Use: for the better understanding of the Julian Year and Calendar. The First Column also in our Church Calendar explained. With other Incidental Remarks. First Edition. 8vo., [8], 120 pp. Fore-margin of the title-page stained by the turn-ins and a minor smear in the centre of the title- page (not touching text). Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind (rebacked, new endpapers, some surface insect damage on the covers). London: for J. Heptinstall, 1694 £150 Wing H2385 (+;+). Holder, a clergyman and Fellow of the Royal Society, wrote this discourse to explain the issue of calendar reform. It was reprinted in 1701 after the renewed rejection of the Gregorian calendar. The work is “an elegant exposition of the concept of harmony on a cosmic scale” and in it he “developed the idea that rational perception was required to give meaning to creation” (ODNB). Provenance: William James Baxter, R.N. signature dated Tuesday 14 May 1907; Baxter has also neatly corrected the errata.

OWNED BY A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WOMAN [202] HOLLAR (Wenceslaus). The Kingdome of England & of Wales, Exactly Described whith every Sheere, & the small townes in every one of them, in Six Mappes, Portable for every Mans Pocket ... Vsefull for all Gentlemen and Travellors and all sorts of Persons that would be Informed of the Distance of Places. Never so Commodiously drawne before this 1676 Described by one that travailed throughout the whole kingdome, for its purpose. Third Edition. Agenda small folio (binding 215 x 95 mm.). etched title-page (folded-in) and 6 folding etched maps all with contemporary hand-colouring to the county boundaries (the maps of the North of England and Bishopric of Durham not by Hollar). Title-page lightly stained with a small hole just under the imprint details and a repaired tear to the blank margin, map of East Anglia repaired along inner fold, most maps reinforced along folds and many with small tears along folds, particularly at the centre. Contemporary gilt ruled calf with clasps (rebacked, corners bumped, minor scrapes to covers). [London]: Printed and sold by John Garrett at the South entrance of ye Exchange, [1688] £4500 90 MAGGS BROS LTD

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Wing H2448A (British Library, Bodley, Birmingham Central Reference Library, Museum of London & National Library of Wales in UK; Columbia, Folger, Minnesota & Yale in USA). Richard Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677 (1982), nos. 652A-658). Title (Pennington 652A, state iv of v); Scottish Lowlands and north of England (652), North of England (653); East Anglia and the Midlands (654, state iv of iv); West of England and North Wales (655, state iv of iv); South Wales and South-west England (656, state iii of iv; with the extra small section (90 x 98 mm) depicting Land’s End and a small part of the Lincolnshire coast at Mablethorpe but lacking the small section with the Isle of Man); South-east England (657, state vi of vi, with Garrett’s imprint added “Printed Coloured and Sold by Iohn Garrett at the South Entrance of the Royall Exchange in London”). “These six maps ... are called the Quartermaster’s map since it was advertised in the title [of the first edition] as ‘Useful for all com[m]anders for quarteringe of souldiers, and all sorts of persons, that would be informed, where the armies be’. It was [first] published in 1644 by Thomas Jenner and etched in greater part by [Wenceslaus] H[ollar]. It is based on Christopher Saxton’s large map of 1583 which was on twenty sheets to a scale of seven miles to the inch ... The map was first issued by Thomas Jenner in 1644, and two states are presumed. He re-issued it in 1671. His stock passed at his death to John Garrett, who re-issued the map in 1676 ... The maps could be used either assembled and stuck together to form a large wall map, as Saxton’s map had been; or bound in atlas form, like the specimen at the B.M.; or folded to form a portable pocket map [like this copy]. This last was a narrow format of the size of the title, and either bound, or enclosed in a leather container approx. 215x95 mm. Pepys records on the 9 June 1667: My Lord Barkeley wanting some maps, and Sir W. Coventry recommending the six maps of England that are bound up for the pocket, I did

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offer to present my lord with them, which he accepted.” (Pennington, 107). A 17th-century hand has written an index to the major towns depicted in each map on the initial blank recto of each map. Several of the maps have faint pencil (?erased) lists of distances between towns. Provenance: 1: Ursula Markham (1678-1725), signature dated 1692 to front pastedown and blank verso of title-page. In 1697 she married Hon. Altham Annesley (d. 1699), 1st Baron Altham, 2nd son of Milton’s protector, Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey. Soon after her marriage she again signed and dated this copy just below her old dated ownership inscriptions this time as “Ursula Altham 1697” 2. Early 19th-century inscription on the blank verso of the title-page “This book called the quarter masters Map was printed by the command of Cromwell, and is much valued for its precison, and antiquity”. 3. JSC’s pencil annotations to front pastedown “Not in Wing”.

MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN FOR THE EARL OF KENT? [203] HOLLES (Denzil, Baron). A Letter to Monseiur Van B: d’M: ... at Amsterdam written by Denzel, Lo. Hollis concerning the Government of England A: D: 1676. London: Co^p^yed out AD: 1688. Manuscript on paper. Small 8vo. [2], 83, [1 (blank), [8 (table)] pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine. [London:] 1688 £750 Manuscript fair copy of a small quarto printed tract of 8pp. (Wing H2462, 2 settings, +,+) addressed to Coenraad Van Beuningen (1622-93), a former Dutch ambassador to both England and France. Before the Civil War Holles had been a leading Parliamentarian, indeed he was one of the five MPs whom Charles I attempted to arrest in 1642, and became a colonel in the Parliamentary army. By the mid-1640s he was leading attempts to achieve a negotiated peace and after Pride’s Purge in 1647 he fled into exile before returning in 1654. Having been sent by Parliament to offer the throne to the exiled Charles II, at the Restoration he was appointed to the Privy Council and created Baron Holles. In his last years, “Holles’s house in Covent Garden became (from early 1674) an early meeting place of those who were to become the leaders of the party that sought to place limitations on the power of , including the exclusion of the Roman Catholic James, duke of York, from the succession. Thus he supported the first Test Act that drove hundreds of Catholics from office, but opposed Danby’s attempt to bind protestants to uphold the existing structures in church and state. ... In 1676 he was dropped from the privy council. He was sufficiently important for Charles to reinstate him when he was trying to curry favour at the height of the furore instigated by the Popish Plot revelations in 1679, but by then his shrill and querulous speeches were of little value to Charles’s more potent opponents, especially as he, unlike Shaftesbury, was tempted to take up the king’s offer of a bill to place limitations upon the power of a popish successor.” - ODNB. The final events of James II’s reign leading up to the invasion of William of Orange and the Glorious Revolution would have been the context in which this manuscript copy of Holles’s 12-year old tract, calling for Anglo-Dutch cooperation against the increasing power of France, was created. Compare, for example, A Letter writ by Mijn Heer Fagel published in Amsterdam in 1688. Provenance: 1: Possibly written for Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent (1645-1702); Cockayne’s Complete Peerage reports that “little seems to be known of him during more than half a century during which he enjoyed his honours. ... [He] is mentioned also in 1680 in the Hatton Correspondence as one of the malcontent lords (Shaftesbury, Wharton, &c) who arranged weekly political meetings at their several houses.”. 2: Henry Grey, 1st & only Duke and Marquess of Kent, 1st Marquess Grey and 12th Earl of Kent (1671-1740), with armorial bookplate dated 1713; by descent to Thomas Philip (Weddell, formerly Robinson, afterwards De Grey), 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1856),l of Wrest Park, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, with armorial bookplate; pencil inventory number “No. 55” on the front pastedown and two 19th-century gilt leather label “MS.” and “55” on the spine; the Wrest Park library was dispersed from the 1920s; the main family archive was acquired by Bedfordshire record Office in 1993, having long been on deposit there.

[204] HOLYDAY (Barten). A Survey of the World. In Ten Books. First Edition. Small 8vo., [8], 118, [2] pp. Browned and lightly spotted in places, with a lower margin stain between B6-C4, final gathering soiled. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind (front cover almost detached, and the other split at head and tail, corners bumped). Oxford: by Will[iam] Hall, for the Authour, 1661 £550 Wing H2533 (+ in UK; Folger, Harvard, Huntington, Illinois, Newberry, Yale in USA). A poetic survey of the world in 1000 rhyming couplets describing in ten books, inanimate creatures, living creatures, nations, languages and arts, philosophers and historians, physicians, lawyers, kings and worthies, politicians, and divines. Dedicated to Sir Richard Browne, the diarist John Evelyn’s father-in-law, and published in the year Holyday, who had been appointed archdeacon of Oxford after the Restoration, died. 92 MAGGS BROS LTD

MILTON REWRITTEN FOR A FEMALE READERSHIP [205] HOPKINS (John). Milton’s Paradise Lost Imitated in Rhyme. In the Fourth Sixth and Ninth Books. Containing The Primitive Loves. The Battle of the Angels. The Fall of Man. First Edition. 8vo., [8], 10, 9-63, [1] pp. Margins stained, spotted and bumped throughout, sheets G-H particularly browned and with a circular stain to centre of C1-2. Contemporary panelled sheep (rebacked, corners repaired, covers worn). London: for Ralph Smith, 1699 £750 Wing H2747 (British Library, Magdalen College Oxford, & Oxford English in UK; Turnbull Library in New Zealand; Columbia, Harvard, Huntington, Illinois, Indiana, Yale in USA). Only edition of a presumptuous re-writing - in rhyming couplets - of three of the most memorable books of Paradise Lost. Hopkins rather shamefacedly admits in his preface that had he known at the time “the majesty and noble air of Mr. Milton’s style” he would never have attempted such an ambitious project. Certainly the fall of man is depicted less subtly by Hopkins – ‘She plucks, and smiles, and he too plucks at last. / And now together wantonly they eat, / All o’re transported with the charming meat’ (52). By way of a further disclaimer he states in his preface that his imitation was intended for the easier understanding of the poem by women - “His work like the Tree of Knowledge is Forbidden to the Ladies, to those I mean, who would Tast the Apples, but care not for Climbing to the Bough”.. Provenance: 1: Inscription on front pastedown “W.L. Lamb from his Mam[a] 1840”.

[206] HOPKINS (William). The Flying Pen-Man or the Art of Short Writing by a more Easie Exact Compendious and Speedy way Composed by William Hopkins author and teacher of the said Art. First Edition. 12mo., [38] pp., engraved throughout with a handsome decorative title by Johannes Drapentier, each page with a narrow decorative border but lacking the engraved portrait of the author. Very light damp staining on the verso of A2, very small stain just touching the fore-edge of C4v and D1r, and with some spotting to E1v. Mid-18th-century red morocco, the covers tooled with a double gilt fillet border and a narrow floral roll, a central lozenge of small flower tools, etc., and a later small gilt armorial stamp of J. E. Bailey on the upper board (spine heavily faded and with the joints rubbed and beginning to split). London: by C.H. for the author,1674 £350 Wing H2752 (National Maritime Museum, Manchester Central Library, National Library of Scotland [lacks portrait] & Senate House Library only. No copy in USA. Wing H23753 (BL, Bodley; Buffalo & Erie County Library, W.A. Clark [?imperfect], Library of Congress) is a second undated editon [?1680], Although Hopkins’s beautifully engraved manual did not suggest a radically new system of short writing, it did provide the most straightforward guide to the subject by including long lists of commonly used words and a table of phrases often used in sermons. Provenance: John Eglington Bailey Shorthand Collection at Manchester Public Free Library presented by Henry Boddington in June 1889; with bookplate and with Bailey’s gilt coat-of-arms on the title; an inked note on the bookplate “Duplicate C.W.Sutton”. Bailey (1840-88), of Manchester, was a banker and antiquary, he published a life of Thomas Fuller and planned a history of stenography.

[207] HORATIUS FLACCUS (Quintus). FANSHAWE (Sir Richard), translator. Selected parts of Horace, Prince of Lyricks; and of all the Latin Poets the fullest fraught with Excellent Morality. Concluding with a piece out of Ausonius and another out of Virgil. Now newly put into English. First Edition. 8vo., [5 (first leaf blank)], 95, 95, [1 (blank)], [2 (errata/blank)] pp. (text in Latin & English on opposite pages with duplicate pagination), Fanshawe’s name appears as an engraved cipher on the title-page. Minor marginal paper flaw in the lower corner of B1, small rust spots to E5 and I4, and with some minor staining to G3 and L7; a few headlines slightly shaved. Contemporary sheep (joints and edges rubbed, one corner patched). London: for M.M. Gabriel Bedell, and T. Collins, 1652 £600 Wing H2786 (+;+). State of the title-page with the motto above Fanshawe’s cipher. A second corrected and improved edition appeared in 1653. MAGGS BROS LTD 93

CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BINDING [208] HORNECK (Anthony). The Fire of the Altar: Or Certain Directions how to Raise the Soul into the Holy Flames, Before, At, and After receiving the Blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper. With suitable Prayers and Devotions. To which is prefix’d a Dialogue betwixt a Christian and his Conscience, concerning the True Nature of the Christian Religion. Second Edition. 12mo., [16], 214, [10] pp., engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black. Lower edge of A5-8 slightly shorter and uncut, crease across the middle of C4, D4 (torn) and E4. Contemporary red morocco binding, covers tooled with a triple gilt fillet containing “drawer-handle”, tulip, and four-petalled flower-and-leaf tools; spine with five panels containing two smaller “drawer-handle” tools and two gilt bud tools; the “drawer-handles” picked-out in black and the flowers in black and silver; gilt edges and marbled endleaves (joints, headcaps, corners and edges rubbed); kidskin chemise. London: for Samuel Lowndes, 1684 £1200 Wing H2827 (British Library, Bodley, Norwich Cathedral in UK; Huntington only in USA). Second edition of Horneck’s popular manual on the way to live a good Christian life which ran to at least fourteen editions. For another binding from the same workshop with the distinctive elongated “drawer-handle” tool with five dots and other tools, see Maggs Bookbinding Catalogue 665, item 55. Provenance: JSC’s pencil note “From Mathews Arcade Bristol. 5/- 1928”.

[209] [HOUGHTON (Thomas)]. The Compleat Miner: or a Collection of the Laws, Liberties, Ancient Customs, Rules, Orders, Articles and Privileges of the several Mines and Miners in the Counties of Derby, Gloucester and Somerset. Together with the Art of Dialling, and levelling Groves, and with an Explication of the Terms of Art used in this Book. 12mo. Contemporary sprinkled calf (rebacked, repairs to the corners and edges, later endpapers). London: for William Cooper, 1688 £2500 Wing H2926 (British Library only in UK; Folger & Queen’s University Ontario in North America). A rare collection of early mining manuals for the counties of Derbyshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset. Consists (like the Folger copy) of a singleton reissue title-page (as above) and the following: 1: HOUGHTON (Thomas). Rara Avis in Terris: or the Compleat Miner, in two Books; the first containing, the Liberties, Laws and Customs of the Lead-Mines within the Wapentake of Winkworth in Derbyshire, in fifty nine Articles, being all that ever was made. The second teacheth, the Art of Dialling and levelling Grooves, a thing greatly desired by all Miners, being a subject never written on before by any. With an Explanation of the Miners Terms of Art used in the Book. London: William Cooper, 1681. First Edition. [8], 105, [17] pp. Light browning throughout, intermittent foxing and soiling. Wing H2934 (British Library, Bodley, Cambridge, Nottingham University and Glasgow University in UK; W. A. Clark, Folger, Harvard, Huntington & Yale in USA). Also with the 1688 reissue title-page (see below). Houghton explains that the book is intended as a ‘pocket companion’ with easy access to information never before published in this way (A2). The second section of the book describes in detail a recent court case over a mining dispute; the machinations of the case seem to suggest the need for the publishing of the articles in the first section - the miners appear to have been a self-governing institution. Houghton explains in his glossary (which forms the final section of the book) that disputes were settled by a jury of twenty four men chosen every six months; for this reason alone the need for a printed set of rules governing all aspects of the industry was becoming increasingly necessary. Mining was also become more widespread and the sums of money being invested in it were steadily increasing. Mining was a highly speculative affair with substantial personal, financial and legal risks involved. Settling land rights and splitting profits were often contentious occasions and this work provides a framework for settling future disputes. The third section of the book provides a technical description of the process of mining with lists of drilling specifications, depth tables and a printed diagram of a mine shaft (102). 2: [Houghton (Thomas)]. The Ancient Laws, Customs and Orders of the Miners in the King’s Forrest of Mendipp in the County of Somerset. [2], 7, [1 (blank)] pp. London: for William Cooper, 1687. Wing A3069 (British Library, Bristol Central Library & Nottingham University in UK; Queen’s University Ontario & Folger in North America). 3: Houghton (Thomas). The Laws and Customs of the Miners in the Forrest of Dean, in the County of Gloucester. 48 pp. London: for William Cooper, 1687. Wing H2929 (British Library [2 copies], Bristol Central Library, Nottingham University & National Library of Wales in UK; Queen’s University Ontario, Folger & Yale in North America). 94 MAGGS BROS LTD

[210] HOWARD (Sir Robert). Four New Plays, Viz: The Surprisal, Committee, Comedies. The Indian-Queen, Vestal Virign, Tragedies. As they were acted by His Majesties Servants at the Theatre-Royal. First Edition. Folio., [12], 242, [2] pp., lacking the final epilogue leaf (I2). Browned and spotted throughout, especially in the margins, and with a number of short tears. Contemporary sheep (rebacked, new endpapers and some minor scuffing). London: for Henry Herringman, 1665 £150 Wing H2995 (+;+). None of these plays were printed separately. Dryden contributed extensively to The Indian Queen, and his tragedy of the same name, published in 1667, forms a sequel to it. Aphra Behn provided the Queen’s costume which she brought back from . Evelyn thought “the play good, but spoilt with ryme”, a general criticism ironically shared by Howard, who in the preface “To the Reader” argues against the use of rhymed verse on the stage, chiefly on the ground that “that which seems nearest to what it intends, is ever to be prefer’d”. Provenance: 1: John Tonge, early signature deleted from the flyleaf and the title-page. 2. Richard & John Scutterbuck, a number of signatures on the flyleaf and title-page (a Richard Scutterbuck was Master of the Mercers’ Company in 1650).

[211] HOWELL (James). Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. Divided into sundry Sections, Partly Historicall, Politicall, Philosophicall. By James Howell Esq. Clerk of the Councell to his late Majestie. The Third Edition. With a Fourth Volume of New Letters, never Published before. Third Edition. 8vo., [24], 309, [5], 115, [23], 38, [14], 126, [10] pp., folding engraved frontispiece (two old repairs at folds). Title bound slightly off-square with the date just shaved; some light staining to the title-page, occasional minor spotting throughout, large ink stain on O4. Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners repaired, covers crazed by damp, new endpapers). London: by Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold by Joseph Nevil, 1655 £200 Wing H3073 (+;+). Howell’s popular collection of post hoc ‘letters’ which “offers a retrospective account of his travels together with his opinions on the peoples and places he encountered along the way” (ODNB). Many of the letters were written whilst Howell was imprisoned in the Fleet on charges of faint loyalty to the King. The Fourth volume of familiar letters is also listed separately as Wing H3708. Provenance: 1: Ink inscription “Mr W[illiam]m Selwin Junior Scrip: [...] decimo die July 1726”opposite the title of Vol. IV. 2: Rev. Charles Lyttelton (1714-68), Bishop of Carlisle and antiquary, with armorial bookplate loosely inserted (probably removed from the original pastedown and retained) and cropped signature on the front flyleaf “CLyttel[ton]”; occasional underlining and correcting of errors may be in Lyttelton’s hand. 3. Francis Fry (1803-86), Quaker businessman and bibliographer of the Bible, given to his granddaughter Juliet Le Barclay, with inscription on the front flyleaf “Juliet le Barclay from her loving Grandfather Francis Fry, Cotham [Bristol] 1st ... 1882”.

[212] HUGHES (Lewes). A Looking-glasse for all true hearted Christians. Wherein they may see the goodnesse of God in giving deliverance unto them from their Popish, cruell, bloodie enemies, by rendring vengeance upon them. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 22 pp., woodcut of the Pope astride the beast with devils leaping from his mouth into the mouths of three onlookers. Uncut at the fore-edge and tail. Light dampstain in MAGGS BROS LTD 95 the inner margin, sheet B a little browned, and with minor spotting to B3 and C2r, margins slightly dusty. Mid-20th-century orange calf by Riviere & Son. London: by T. P[aine]. and M. S[immons], 1642 £1100 Wing H3317 (British Library, Dr. Williams’s Library & National Library of Wales in UK; Chicago & Harvard in USA). A rare apocalyptic pamphlet reading current events in England and Ireland as precursors of Armageddon. Hughes (c. 1570-c.1646) was born in London and preached there for a number of years before travelling with the Virginia Company to Bermuda in 1614 to serve as a minister. He recorded his experiences abroad in his Letter sent into England from the Summer Ilands (1615). He spent nine years there before he was dismissed in 1623. Here he recalls seeing the great comet of 1618 “being then in the Sommer Islands (where we saw it plainly, because the climate there is not subject to foggie mills, nor to dark clouds)” (p. 2). His later career is obscure but by 1645 he was rector of Westbourne in Sussex and he may have died in Wales soon after. In this work Hughes, a fairly radical puritan, continues in his providentialist style to record the supposed abuses of Catholics on Protestants in Ireland who he claims “do shew the greatest crueltie that ever was heard of ” (p. 1) - including the usual ultimate crime of roasting of two children on a spit in front of their parents. The final sections of the book (pp. 11-22) records “examples of Gods Judgements” providing short accounts of people injured, punished, or even killed for scorning “true Protestants” by calling them and for breaking the Sabbath, of churches that have been destroyed as punishments of God, and of general strange portents of nature. The contents sound identical to another tract by Hughes of 1642: Signes from Heaven of the wrath and iudgements of God ... (Wing H3318, British Library & Magdalene College Cambridge). Provenance: JSC’s bookplate, pencil notes and old price of £150.

[213] HUGO (Herman). Pia desideria. Viz. I. Gemitus Animae Poenitentis. 2. Vota Animae Sanctae. 3. Suspiria Animae Amantis. Editio postrema Recognita & Emendata. First Edition printed in England. 16mo in 8s, [16], 181, [17] pp., engraved frontispiece, 46 engraved plates in the text, without the final blank leaf. Frontispiece and title-page spotted in the inner margin, a few small spots and with a small hole to upper margin of I7 and a tear to R1 (affecting running title). Slightly later calf, gilt spine, red morocco label (corners bumped, end leaves stained, joints beginning to crack, and with a chip to spine label). London: by J[ames]. C[ottrell]. for Robert Pawlett,1677 £240 Wing H3349 (+;+). Hugo’s Pia desideria was first printed in Antwerp in 1624 with engravings by the baroque artist Boetius à Bolswert. It was translated into numerous languages, including an English edition by Edmund Arwaker in 1686. This is the first edition in Latin printed in England. The work describes the three paths to salvation, through purification, illumination and union. Provenance: Samuel Dashwood, early 18th-century armorial bookplate.

[214] IRELAND. A Bloody Fight at Balrud- in Ireland: Where Sir Henry Titchburne was shot in the belly, his Sonne slaine, Colonell Trevor, and divers Officers and Gentlemen killed, others taken Prisoners. Many of the Rebels slaine. The Garrison of Trim relieved, and the Rebels pursued by Colonell Jones, with 2 Demi-culverins, five field peeces, and 7000 Horse and Foot. First Edition. 6 pp. Disbound London: by Robert Ibbitson, 1647 £300 Wing B3235 (British Library, Cambridge, National Library of Ireland, National Library of Scotland, Worcester College Oxford in UK; Harvard, Huntington & Yale in USA). Sweeney 448. A newsletter, dated from Dublin, 4 Aug. 1647. Balrud-Derry is now known as Balrothery, Co., Dublin. Provenance: Sidney Russell, of Fairway, Gorway Road, Walsall, circa 1936, paginated in green ink [see the pamphlet by Arnold Boate]. 96 MAGGS BROS LTD

[215] IRELAND. BOATE (Gerard). Irelands Naturall History. Being a true and ample Description of its Situation, Greatness, Shape, and Nature; of its Hills, Woods, Heaths, Bogs; of its Fruitfull parts and profitable Grounds, with the severall way of Manuring and Improving the same. With its Heads or Promontories, Harbours, Roades and Bayes; of its Springs and Fountaines, Brookes, Rivers, Loghs; of its Metalls, Mineralls, Freestone, Marble, Sea-coal, Turf, and other things that are taken out of the ground. And lastly of its Air and Season, and what diseases it is free from, or subject unto. Conducing to the Advancement of Navigation, Husbandry, and other profitable Arts and Professions. Written by Gerard Boate, late Doctor of Physick to the State in Ireland. And now Published by Samuell Hartlib, Esq; for the Common Good of Ireland, and more especially, for the benefit of the Adventurers and planters Therein. First Edition. 8vo., [16], 186, [6] pp., with the final errata leaf (corrected). Some light dampstaining throughout, two holes from a paper flaw in B2 with loss of two letters, small rust spots on D2-D4 and F1. Contemporary calf, ruled in blind (covers heavily rubbed, corners bumped and cracking at the head and tail; endleaves unstuck). London: John Wright, 1652 £1400 Wing B3372 (+;+). Jim Bennett & Scott Mandelbrote, The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple (1998), no. 63. Like his older brother Arnold, Gerard Boate (1604-50) was a Dutch-born physician who moved to London and, for a time, to Ireland where he was physician to the army (1647) and doctor to the Dublin military hospital (1649). “In 1645, Gerard Boate began to compile a natural (which he had yet to visit), prompted by information given to him by his brother and the tales of Irish protestant refugees in London. His aim was to encourage further Protestant settlement by drawing attention to the potential riches of the country, and to praise the English for their supposedly improving rule, which had been threatened by the . The work was avowedly Baconian in character and presented an economic geography of the island which reflected the regional, religious, and political biases of Boate’s Protestant settler informants, especially that of the Parsons family from County Offally.” - Bennett & Mandebrote. The volume was edited and published from Boate’s papers by Samuel Hartlib, the agricultural reformer. “In a break with the chorographic tradition of Camden which emphasized antiquities and local curiosities, Boate describes natural resources plainly and systematically to produce a coherent regional geography. There is little topographic information and there are no maps, but his scientific education is evident from his descriptions of geology, and processes such as glass making. His aim was systematic description as a prelude to improvement by and for protestant settlers: consequently the natural features of the country are described with enthusiasm to interest new settlers, but the Irish are reproached for their failure to improve the land and for their unruliness and disorderliness” (ODNB). Provenance: Initials “ET” in ink on the top edge. Charles Kemeys, signature on the flyleaf and initials and repeated signature on the title-page, probably Sir Charles Kemeys, 3rd. Bart. (1651-1702), of Cefu Mabley, Co. Glamorgan, Wales; by descent to the Tynte family, Baronets (extinct 1785) and Kemeys-Tynte family of Halsewell, Somerset.

[216] IRELAND. BOATE (Arnold). A Remonstrance of divers Remarkable Passages and Proceedings of our Army in the Kingdome of Ireland, being an Extract of a Letter, sent out of Dublin from Doctor Arnold Boat, Doctor to the State, and Physician Generall to the Army, to his brother Gerard Boat, Doctor to the Kings Majestie, living in Aldermanburie. Also the certain death of Sir Charles Coote, and the manner thereof. First Edition. Small 4to., [8]pp. Browned throughout. Late 19th-century half calf and marbled boards by Galwey & Co. London: by R. Bdger, for Richard Lownds, 1642 £450 Wing B3371 (+; Folger, Harvard, Huntington & Newberry in USA). Only edition of Boate’s letter reporting the taking of Newry and Carlingford in Ireland by the English forces, with a short account of the death of Sir Charles Coote – “killed accidentally by one of his owne Lieutenants, who when hee perceived the accident, hee would have runne himselfe upon his owne sword, had not a Captaine prevented him” (A4r). Arnold Boate (1606-1653) was a Dutch polymath, a doctor of medicine, Biblical scholar and writer on natural history. In 1636 he went to Ireland as personal physician to the viceroy, Robert Sidney, Earl of Lecester. He subsequently became physician to Archbishop Ussher and Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford and surgeon-general for Ireland. He left Ireland in 1644. In 1652 he edited and published his deceased brother Gerard’s Natural History of Ireland. Provenance: Sidney Russell, of Fairway, Gorway Road, Walsall, with ink purchase note “purchased from Bernard Quaritch Aug 1936 for 21/- each pamphlet (on the average)”; once bound with four other pamphlets detailed in red, blue and green ink on the endleaves and back cover. MAGGS BROS LTD 97

[217] IRELAND. BOOKER (John). A Bloody Irish Almanack, or, Rebellious and Bloody Ireland, Discovered in some Notes Extracted out of an Almanack, Printed at Waterford in Ireland for this Yeare 1649. Whereunto are annexed some Astrologicall Observations upon a Conjunction of the two Malignant Planets Saturne and Mars in the midle of the Signe Taurus the Horroscope of Ireland, upon Friday the 12 of June this Yeare 1646. With memorable Praedictions and Occurrences therein. First Edition. Small 4to., [7], 57 pp., astrological woodcut on the title, with the leaf of explanatory verse opposite. Browned and soiled; title-page soiled, ink stained and with three small holes in the upper inner margin and with the imprint shaved, initial leaf soiled and laid-down, with some damage in the upper inner margin and slightly shaved at the head; F2 cut off-square with slight loss to the first line of text and the sidenote on the verso; final leaf (verso blank) also laid-down; closely shaved at the head cropping or removing some page numbers. Early 19th-century half calf and marbled boards (worn, upper joint split). London: for Iohn Partridge, 1646 £200 Wing B.3723A (+;+). One of Booker’s annually printed almanacs on the controversial subject of ‘yee bloudy Irish Nation’. Booker was the most well known astrologer of his day; his case book (now preserved at Bodley) records astrological enquiries by roughly 16,500 people. His popularity was due in part to printed works, such as this one, which he continued to publish up to his death. Booker notes in his introduction that he has given up preparing his annual almanacs due to censorship problems but following the example of he was now returning with a volume of predictions. The predictions are written in a typically oblique style with great emphasis placed on the importance of significant dates e.g., “From Christs Birth count a thousand yeares compleate, / And add five hundred more with eighty eight” (44). Provenance: John Towneley, of Towneley, , with “Exlibris Bibliothecae Domestica” bookplate.

VOLUME OF TRACTS [218] IRELAND. CHARLES I. His Majesties Message to the House of Commons: concerning an order made by them for the borrowing of one hundred thousand pounds of the Adventurers Money for Ireland together with the Answer of The House of Commons in Parliament therunto. First Edition. Small 4to. [8]pp. Early 20th-century black morocco and cloth boards, tracts separated by later leaves. London: for John Wright, 1642 £1200 Wing C2479 (+;+). Known as the Act of Subscription, the scheme offered land in , Connaught, Munster and to Adventurers in return for funding the English army’s “speedy reducing of the Rebels in Ireland”. Bound with: 1: PURSELL (Francis). March, 31 A Great Defeat given to the Rebells in Ireland, by Master George Courtney, Governor of the Castle of Limbrick: Wherein Colonell Geraldine, one of the chief Rebels, with divers Captains and other Officers and above 130 Common Souldiers were slaine. Whereunto is added, the Relation of the ta-king of the City of Corke by the Rebells. All this being credibly Related in a Letter sent from Master Francis Pursell, to his kinsman G. Buk Esq. 6, [2] pp. London: Anno Dom. 1642. Wing P4245 (+ in UK & Ireland; no copy in USA). 2: COLE (Robert). True Intelligence From Ireland. Dated From Dublin the second of April, and received here the eleventh. 7, [1] pp. London: for H. Blunden, 1642. Wing C5028 (+ in UK & Ireland; Indiana & Minnesota in USA). 3: PUTTOCK (Roger). Good and true Newes From Ireland being the Copy of a Letter sent from Mr. Rodger Buttock [sic], one of the chief Ministers in the City of Dublin, shewing in a true and reall relation, how 400. foot, and 100 horse sent from Dublin, under the Command of Sir Charles Coot marched towards Ardee 8. miles from thence, and beat them out of their Quarters, defeating the whole Army. Also, how they slew 1100. men at Dundalk, 15, Officers, took 4 pieces of Ordnance, and great store of good pillage, with the losse of 20 men. Dated from Dublin the 4 of Aprill, and received here the 12. 1642. [8] pp. London: for Andrew Coe, 1642. Wing P4252A (Eton, National Library of Ireland, John Rylands Library & Victoria & Albert Museum only; no copy in USA). 4: CHARLES I. His Majesties Message Sent to the Parliament, Aprill, 8. 1642. Concerning His Resolution to go into Ireland for suppressing the Rebels there. [8] pp. London: for Joseph Smith, 1642. Wing C2448D (+ in UK & Ireland; no copy in USA). 5: MUSCHAMP (Agmondisham). Further Intelligence From Ireland, Declared in a Letter Sent from Captaine Muschampe, Captaine of the Castle of Corke, to an especiall Friend of his in this City of London: With some other Newes from other parts of the said Kingdome. [2], 5, [1] pp. London: by R. Oulton, & G. Dexter, 1642. Wing M3138 (+ in UK & Ireland; Folger only in USA). 98 MAGGS BROS LTD

6: New Intelligence From Ireland, Received the 17. of June, 1642. With the Arrivall of the Bishop of St. Davids, at Mine-head in Sommerset Shire, who fled upon his conviction, and is now brought in a Bark from Dublin, and under Guard till Order from the House what to do with him. Sent to Master Otgar, Merchant in Swithing-Lane. With a Relation by another, of three Defeats given to Sir Philem O Neale, with the taking of his Trunke, with the Crowne in it. Also Divers Other Passages from other Places. [2], 5, [1] pp. London: for Edward Blackmore, June 22. 1642. Wing N649 (+ in UK & Ireland; Huntington, New York Public Library & Yale in USA). 7: DU MOULIN (Pierre). The Great Loyalty of the Papists to K. Charles I. (Of Blessed Memory.) Discovered, by Peter Du Moulin. D.D. In his Vindication of the Protestant Religion. [2], 9, [1] pp. London: in the Year 1673. Wing D2558 (+;+). 8: Tom Tel-Troth’s Declaration In behalf of the four pretended Irish Ruffians. 8 pp. [London: c. 1679?]. Not in Wing; ESTC lists British Library only. 9: USSHER (James, Archbishop of Armagh). The Iudgement of Doctor Rainoldes touching the Originall of Episcopacy. More largely confirmed out of Antiquity By James Archibishop of Armagh. [2], 16, [2] pp. London: by G.M. for Thomas Downes, 1641. Wing U186 (+;+).

[219] IRELAND. [HOWELL (James)]. Mercurius Hibernicus: or, a Discourse of the late Insurrection in Ireland, displaying, 1 The true causes of it (till now not so fully discovered.) 2 The course that was taken to suppresse it. 3 The reasons that drew on a Cessation of Arms, and other compliances since. As also touching those Auxiliaries which are transported thence to serve in the present Warre. Small 4to., [4], 4, 7-14 pp., woodcut harp on the title-page. Title-page lightly spotted, slightly browned throughout and with the lower margin closely trimmed at B3-4 cropping a few catchwords and signatures. Early 20th-century boards. Bristol, 1644 £400 Wing H3093 (+ in UK & Ireland; Folger & Kansas in USA). One of three variant printings of the same year (Wing only lists two). In this edition, line 3 of the title reads: “A discourse of the late insurrection in”, line 11 ends: “transpor-”. A defence of the King’s attempt to raise reinforcements from Ireland addressed to “Master E.P.” by “Philarenus” attributed to Howell. Provenance: 1: An early hand has corrected the Latin verse on the verso of the final leaf. 2: Bookplate removed from the front pastedown.

[220] IRELAND. [HOWELL (James)]. Mercurius Hibernicus: or a discourse of the late insurrection in Ireland […] [Another edition]. Small 4to., [2], 14 pp. Disbound, backed with a strip of marbled paper.. Bristoll: 1644 £350 Wing H3093 (+ in UK & Ireland; W.A. Clark, Chicago [not on their online catalogue], Illinois & Yale in USA). One of three printings in the same year (Wing only lists two). In this edition line 3 of the title reads “a discourse of the late” and line 11 ends “trans-”.

VOLUME OF IRISH CIVIL WAR TRACTS [221] IRELAND. [MILTON (John)]. Articles of peace, made and concluded with the Irish Rebels, and Papists, by James Earle of Ormond, for and in behalfe of the late King, and by vertue of his Autoritie. Also a Letter sent by Ormond to Col. Jones, Governour of Dublin, with his Answer thereunto. And a Representation of the Scotch Presbytery at Belfast in Ireland. Upon all which are added Observations [by John Milton]. Publisht by Authority. First Edition. Small 4to. [2], 65 pp. Dampstained; a paper flaw in the final leaf has caused slight loss to the end of two lines on the recto (the verso is blank). Bound c. 1830 in half calf, marbled boards (joints rubbed). London: by Matthew Simmons, 1649 £8500 Wing O439B (+; Catholic University of America, Folger, Harvard, Huntington [ex Bridgewater], Illinois, & Yale in USA). Formerly Wing A3863. On 15 March 1649, six weeks after the execution of King Charles I, the newly-established Council of State appointed Milton Secretary of Foreign Tongues (a prototype for the post of Foreign Secretary): “In the first instance Milton’s duties in the service of the council of state consisted for the most part in translating international correspondence into the Latin of diplomacy; this was a task which Milton discharged throughout his period as a civil servant, but he quickly assumed more important tasks alongside these MAGGS BROS LTD 99

routine duties. On 28 March the council ordered: ‘that Mr. Milton be appointed to make some observations upon the complication of interests which is now amongst the several designers against the peace of the Commonwealth; And that it be ready to be printed with the Papers out of Ireland which the House hath ordered to be printed’. (Masson, 4.87). The Articles of Peace were published on 16 May [recte by 10 May], and Milton’s Observations were printed as an appendix. From Milton’s English perspective the native Irish were barbarians who massacred civilized English settlers and soldiers; the anachronistic condemnation of Milton’s hostile attitude does not facilitate historical understanding, but it is undeniably the case that the consequences of such hostility were immediately felt in the massacres at Drogheda and Wexford, and still reverberate in Anglo-Irish politics.” - ODNB. Milton’s views represent the new government’s official (and vitriolic) response to the promises of political and religious freedom which the Duke of Ormonde had made to the Irish Catholics shortly before the . It is one of Milton’s scarcest political tracts. Bound (near the end) in a volume of tracts relating to Ireland: 1: A True Copie of the sentence of Warre pronounced against Sir Francis Annesley Knight, and Baron Mountmorris, in the Realme of Ireland, in the Castle-Chamber at Dublin in Ireland, the 12. of December 1635. Together with his lordships Petition against Thomas Earle of Strafford, exhibited into the honourable assembly of the Commons house of Parliament the seventh of November, 1640. 15pp. London: for J.B., 1641. Wing T2665 (+;+). 2: PARLIAMENT. A Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament: With the Aditionall reasons, last presented to His Maiestie. Sabbathi 12 Martij. 1641[/2]. Ordered ... that the Declaration ... shall be forthwith Printed and published. ... Whereunto is annexed, His Majesties Speech to the Committe, [sic], the 9 of March, 1641[/2]. when they presented the Declaration of both Houses of Parliament at New-market. 1600. London: for Ioseph Hunscott, 1641[/2]. Wing E1483 (+;+). One of several editions. 3: A Declaration of the Great and weighty Affayres and Matters of Consequence concerning this Kingdome. Also the severall Orders made by the House of Parliament, March 22. 1641[/2]. With some Remarkable Occurrences from Holland, and the Kingdome of Ireland. Printed by Order of the House of Parliament. March 22. 1641[/2]. [8]pp. London: for John Thomas, 1641[/2]. Wing D684 (+;+). Includes a letter from Raphael Hunt to John Hawkredge reporting a victory over Sir Phelim O’Neil. 4: GLYNNE (Sir John). The Replication of Mr. Glynn. In the Name of all the Commons of England: to the generall Answer of Thomas Earle of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the severall Charges exhibited against him in Parliament, by the House of Commons, April the 13. 1641[/2]. 19pp. London: printed, 1641[/2]. Wing G891B (+;+). One of 4 editions. Cropped at the foot of the second leaf with loss of the final line on each side. 5: A great Conspiracy by the Papists in the Kingdome of Ireland, Discovered by the Lords, Justices, and Counsell at Dublin and Proclaimed there Octob. 23. 1641. Which Proclamation was sent to the Parliament here in England and read before the Lords and Commons in Parliament on Munday Novemb. 1. 1641. Whereunto is annexed the Copy of a Letter written with the Kings owne hand, and sent to Mr. Nicholas, Clarke of the Counsell from Edenburgh Octob. 18. 1641. With a true Discovery of the Plot in Ireland. [2], 6pp. London: for John Thomas, 1461 [sic; i.e. 1641]. Wing G1680 (5 copies in UK & Ireland; Harvard & Yale in USA). 6: GOODWIN (John). Anti-cavalierisme, or, truth pleading as well the Necessity, as the Lawfulness of this present War, for the suppressing of that Butcherly brood of Cavaliering Incendiaries, who are now hammering England, to make an Ireland of it: wherein all the materiall objections against the lawfulness of this undertaking, are fully cleered and answered, and all men that either love God, Themselves, or Good men, Exhorted to Contribute all manner of assistance hereunto. [2], 51pp. London: by G.B. and R.W. for Henry Overton, [1642]. Wing G1146 (+;+). Two other editions are dated 1642 and 1643. 7: JONES (Henry, later Bishop of Meath). A Remonstrance of Divers Remarkable Passages concerning the Church and Kingdome of Ireland, recommended by Letters from the Right Honourable the Lords Justices, and Counsell of Ireland, and presented by Henry Jones Doctor in Divinity, and Agent for the Ministers of the Gospel in that Kingdom, to the Honourable House of Commons in England. [8], 80 [i.e. 82]pp. [Order to print dated 21 March 1641/2 on leaf opposite the title]. London: for Godfrey Emerson, and William Bladen, 1642. Wing J943 (+;+). 8: [PARKER (Henry)]. Some few Observations upon his Majesties late Answer to the Declaration, or Remonstrance of the Lords and Commons of the 19. of May, 1642. Drophead title. [London: 1642]. Wing P424 (+;+). One of 2 editions (the other 8pp). 9: [POVEY (Thomas)]. The Moderator expecting sudden peace, or certaine ruine. Directed by Reason, Arising out of the Consideration of what hath already happened, Our present Condition, and the most likely Consequents of These. 16, 15-28pp. London: Printed Anno Domini 1642[/3]. Wing P3042 (+;+). One of two editions; the other is dated 1643. 10: Irelands Excise, by The Lords, Iustices, and Councell there. As it was Given at his Maiesties Castle in Dublin 24. Iune, 1643. 8pp. London: by F. Leach, for Michaell [sic] Sparke Senior, and Iunior, 1643. Iuly 29. Wing I418A (+ in UK & Ireland; Harvard, Indiana & Yale in USA). Two catchwords shaved. 11: The Irsih [sic] Treaty, or the last and best Intelligence from Ireland; Being a perfect Relation of the most remarkable occurrents in that Kingdome, since the Lord Taffes going over thither with a Commission from his Majesty to Treat with the Rebels there. In which is contained an exact Relation of the said Treaty at Trimme, between the Marquesse of Ormond, and Sir Francis Willoughby, for his Majesty, and the Lord Neuterfield and others in behalf of the Rebels. As also a continuation of the victorious successe of the Protestant forces in severall parts of Ireland, since the breaking off and conclusion of the said Treaty in a letter to the Lady Rogers [dated 2 July 1643]. [2], 4 [i.e. 5], [1 (blank)]pp. London: by T. Harper for H. Shepheard, and are to be sold by G. Tomlinson, 1643. Wing I 1406 (Bodley, Corpus Christi Oxford, NLI in UK & Ireland; Harvard & Huntington in USA). 12: A Declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament; Concerning the Rise and Progresse of the Grand Rebellion in Ireland. Together with a multitude of Examinations of Persons of quality, whereby it may easily appear to all the World, who were, and still are the Promoters of that cruell and unheard of Rebellion. With some Letters and Papers of great consequence of the Earl of Antrims, which were intercepted. Also some Letters of Mart, which were 100 MAGGS BROS LTD

granted by the Lord Mohun, Sir Ralph Hopton, &c. And likewise another from the Rebells in Ireland, who term themselves, the Supreme Councel for the Catholique-Cause. 63, [1 (blank)]pp. London: for Edw. Husbands, Iuly 25. 1642. Wing E2557 (+;+), intermediate state with day in imprint date and a line of type ornament above the catchword on A2v but also with the order to print found in E2557A. Wormhole in the outer margin touching two sidenotes and one letter in the text; small rust-hole in B3. 13: A Proclamation Concerning a Cessation of Arms. Agreed and concluded at Siggings-town, in the county of Kildare, the Fifteenth day of September, in the Nineteenth yeer of His Majesties Raign [1643], by and between James Marquesse of Ormonde, Lieutenant Generall of His Majesties Army in the , ... of the one party. And Donogh Viscount Muskerry, Sir Lucas Dillon Knight; Nicholas Plunkett Esquire; [S]ir Robert Talbot Baronet; ... Authorised by His Majesties Roman Catholique Subjects, of whose party they are, and now in Arms in the said Kingdom, &c. ... bearing date at Cashel, the Seventh day of September, in the said Nineteenth yeer of His majesties Raign, of the other party. 8pp. Printed first at Dublin by William Bladen; And now reprinted at London for Edw. Husbands. October 21. 1643. Wing I605 (+;+). 14: [BOWLES (Edward)]. The Mysterie of Iniquity, yet working in the Kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the destruction of Religion truly Protestant. Discovered, as by other grounds apparant and probable, so especially by the late cessation in Ireland, no way so likely to be ballanced, as by a firme Union of England and Scotland, in the late solemne Covenant, and a religious pursuance of it. [2], 48, [2 (imprimatur dated 12 Dec. 1643)]pp. London: for Samuel Gellibrand, 1643. Wing B3877 (+;+), one of 2 printings. Some page numbers cropped. 15: A Full Relation of the Late Expedition of the Right Honourable, the Lord Monroe, Major-generall of all the Protestant Forces in the province of Uulster [sic]. With their severall marches and skimishes [sic] with the bloody Irish Rebels, and what Towne and they have taken. And the number of Horse and Foot on both sides [17 June to 15 July 1644; report `dated 23 July 1644. Also Two declarations and an Oath of Confederacy, whereby they bind themselves utterly to ruine and destroy the Protestants in that Kingdome. And a Letter from the Lord Digby, His Majesties Secretary, of great concernment; sent to the Dutchesse of Buckingham: which was intercepted. Published by Authority. [2], 14pp. London: by J. Wright, August 27, 1644. Wing F2363 (+;+). Dust-soiled. 16: An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for Raising of Fourscore thousand pounds by a Weekly Assessment through the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, for the present relief of the British Army in Ireland. And to continue for the space of Twelve moneths, from the first day of September, 1644 [dated 16 Oct. 1644]. 30pp (lacks final blank leaf). London: for Edw. Husbands, October 23, 1644. Wing E1913 (+;+), one-line imprint; one of 4 editions with the same date. Dust-soiled and damp-stained. 17: The Earl of Glamorgans Negotiations and colourable Commitment in Ireland demonstrated: or the Irish Plot for bringing Ten thousand Men and Arms into England, whereof Three hundred to be for Prince Charls’s [sic] Lifeguard. Discovered in several Letters taken in a Packet-boat by Sir Tho: Fairfax Forces at Padstow in Cornwal. Which Letters were cast into the Sea, and by the Sea coming in, afterwards regained. And were read in the Honorable House of Commons. Together with divers other Letters taken by Captain Moulton at Sea near Milford-Haven coming out of Ireland, concerning the same Plot and Negotiation. 35, [1 (blank)]pp. London: for Edward Husband, March 17, 1645 [i.e. 1646]. Wing W3533 (+;+), under Edward Somerset, later Marquess of Worcester. Dusty. 18: An Ordinance of the Lords & Commons Assembled in Parliament for the Raising of Moneys to be imployed towards the maintenance of Forces within this Kingdom, under the Command, of Sir Thomas Fairfax Knight. And for the speedy transporting of and paying the Forces for carrying on the War of Ireland [23 June 1647]. [2], 40pp. London: for Edward Husband, 1647. Sidenotes cropped on D1-4 and E1; three smallish holes in the final leaf (affecting text on the recto and “FINIS” on the verso). Wing E2020A (+ in UK & Ireland; UC-Sutro, Columbia, Yale & Toronto in North America). [Order to print 6000 copies dated 7 July 1647 on the title]. 19: The Form of Church-Government to be used in the Church of England and Ireland: Agreed upon by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, after advice had with the [Westminster] Assembly of Divines [dated 29 August 1648]. [2], 46pp. Londou [sic]: for John Wright, 1648. Wing E1539 (+;+). ESTC records another edn. with London spelt correctly in the imprint [?mis-reported]. Important manifesto of the Presbyterian church. 20: IRETON (Henry). A Letter from the Lord Deputy-General of Ireland, unto the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Parliament of England; concerning the Rendition of the City of Limerick: Together with the Articles formerly offered, and the Articles upon which the same was Surrendred: As also a Particular of persons excepted, the Ammunition and Ordnance in the Town delivered upon the Surrender of the said City. [3 Nov. 1651]. 16 [of 24pp; lacks the final 8pp. with the final Articles, etc.]. London: by John Field, 1651.Wing I1032 (+ in UK & Ireland; Huntington & Yale in USA). 21: A. (N.). A True and perfect Account of the Discovery of a Barbarous & Bloody Plot Lately Carried on by the Jesuites in Ireland, for the Destroying of the Duke of Ormond, His Majesties Lord Lieutenant there. Sent over in a Letter from Dublin, to a Friend in London [10 Jan. 1678/9]; And Confirmed by several Persons of Quality in that Nation. [2], 5, [1]pp. London: for R.T., 1679. Wing A20 (+ in UK & Ireland; W.A.Clark, Folger, Huntington, Newberry & Yale in USA). 22: PENNYMAN (John). Godfrey’s Blood Cryeth for Vengeance against that Spirit, and all those Persons, who had any hand, or are in any measure guilty therein. ... Novemb. 21. 1680. John Pennyman [a Woollen Draper (added in MS)]. Single leaf, printed in red and black on one side only. Not in Wing or ESTC. A response to the murder of Sir Edmundury Godfrey - the outbreak of the Popish Plot. Provenance: General George Vaughan Hart (d. 1832) or his 4th son, also George Vaughan Hart (1805-95), of Kilderry, nr. Muff, Co. Donegal, with armorial bookplate. Their ancestor Capt. Henry Hart is said to have gone to ireland with the in the late 16th century. Old pencil price by JSC: “£65-0-0”. MAGGS BROS LTD 101

[222] IRELAND. Papers from Ireland, of the Marquesse of Ormonds coming in to the Parliament: Major Generall Willoughby, and two Knights come over to us, and 56 Barrels of Gunpowder sent to secure Dublin. And the maner of taking of Mariborough Fort, and the Castle of Athlone. Where a thousand Protestants, Men Women and Children, were at the mercy of the bloody Rebels. Besides the losse of the Lord Dillon, Viscount Castaelon, Sir William Gilburt and his Son, 4. Ministers, and divers Officers. And a List of their Names. First Edition. 8 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. London: for E.E., 1646 £200 Wing P.291 (British Library, National Library of Ireland and Victoria & Albert Museum only. No copy in USA. . Sweeney 3319. . Two newsletters, from E.A. from Chester, 30 Sept. 1646, and from N.T. from , 2 Sept. 1646, followed by five short lists of rebel names and rebel places.

[223] IRELAND. PARSONS (Ralph). Two famous Battels fought in Ireland: Wherein the Protestants under the command of the Earle of Ormond, Sr. Charles Coote, and Sr. Simon Harcourt, slew great numbers of the Rebeles, routing them from one Town to another, and tooke divers prisoners to their great joy and comfort. Faithfully related in a Letter, sent from Mr. Ralph Parsons in Dublin, to Sr. William Brewerton [Brereton], a worthy Member of the House of Commons. Received by the last Post, February 23. 1641[/2]. Whereunto is added, The brave Adventures and Victorious exploits of Captain Thomas Steutevile, neere unto the Town of Drogheda in Ireland. First Edition. Small 4to. 8pp. Woodcut vignette of two Elizabethan-style soldiers on the title. Nasty brown stain along the inner margin of the last leaf where a cloth backing has been removed, leaving a tear near the foot (just touching the first letter of the last line). Disbound. London: for J. Wright, 1642 £350 Wing P562A (British Library, Cambridge, Eton, National Library of Ireland [3 copies]; Yale only in USA. P562 (British Library, National Library of Ireland, Harvard & Newberry) is a variant dated 1641. Sweeney 3332. Parson’s letter is dated 19 Feb. 1641[/2]. Provenance: Sidney Russell, of Fairway, Gorway Road, Walsall, circa 1936, with some underlining in green ink [see the pamphlet by Arnold Boate].

[224] IRELAND. The Propositions made by the Citie of London, for the raising of a Million of Mony, for the quick subduing of the bloudy Rebels in Ireland, well weighed, and considered of, by divers Gentlemen here in Towne, and approved of, and consented unto, by the Honorable House of Commons, and presented unto the Lords for their Concurrence therein, and to joyn in an humble Petition to his Majesty for his consent thereunto. Twenty members of the House of Commons having already subscribed for twentie thousand pounds. 102 MAGGS BROS LTD

First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 5, [1] pp. Guarded along the inner margin, shaved at the head affecting some page numbers. Mid- 20th-century grey boards. London: for Iohn Borroughs and John Frank, 1642 £150 Wing P3790 (+;+). Known as the Act of Subscription, the scheme offered land in Ulster, Connaught, Munster and Leinster to Adventurers in return for funding the English army’s “speedy reducing of the Rebels in Ireland”. Provenance: “Richard Inman 1641”, ink signature on the title-page.

[225] ISOCRATES. Scholia in Duas Isocratis Orationes ad Demonicum & Nicoclem. ... Studio & Opera G. Sylvani, Panonii Medici. Editio quinta aucta & emendata. 12mo., [12], 168 pp., lacking the first blank. Edges damp stained and occasionally torn. Late 18th-century half calf and marbled boards (boards heavily worn and faded, joints split and headcaps torn away). Londini: Henrici Hills, 1684 £80 Wing S6327A (British Library & Balliol College Oxford in UK; Huntington, Johns Hopkins & Library Company of Philadelphia in USA). A rare edition of a popular textbook for learning Latin and Greek. Provenance: John Reay, signature on one of the flyleaves and two red ink stamps “IR” on the title-page and the final leaf. Two 18th-century ink annotations (A7v and D1r), the first reading “hoc inter me et illos interest quod [...]” and the second correcting a passage from the text.

[226] IZACKE (Richard). Antiquities of the City of Exeter. First Edition. 8vo., [6], 191, [63 (tables)] pp., engraved armorial frontispiece (fore-edge repaired with some loss to the lower image), woodcut coats-of-arms in the text lacking the engraved map. Some occasional light spotting in places, some foxing, closed tear to top of A6, and with a small hole in the fore-margin of M8. Late 19th-century red calf, covers panelled in gilt, gilt spine, gilt edges (joints rubbed, spine and covers faded). London: by E. Taylor and R. Holt, for Richard Marriott, 1677 £120 Wing I1110 (+;+). Izacke was elected chamberlain of Exeter in 1653 and had access to the city’s extensive archives. This edition is based on a manuscript history which he presented to the corporation in 1665 (ODNB). Provenance: 1: W. Flexman, ink name stamp to head of title page. 2: Michael Williams, signature dated Octr. 1887 on the flyleaf.

[227] JANEWAY (James). A Token for Children: being an Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary lives, and Joyful Deaths of several young children. 12mo., [22], 54, [8 (D5 separate title to part 2], 78, [4 (advertisements] pp. engraved portrait by F. Van Hove, four very small woodcut illustrations (repeated thirteen times) Title-page browned, staining to lower corners of A1-B4 and fore-margins of E12-F6, upper corner of B7 missing with some loss of text on verso, and lower corner of B9 (no loss of text). Contemporary sheep (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves, old flyleaves preserved). London: for T. Norris; and A. Bettesworth, [1720?] £750 ESTC records British Library only in UK; Pierpont Morgan Library & Toronto (Osborne Collection) in North America. MAGGS BROS LTD 103

A later edition of a much reprinted book (ESTC lists over 50 editions, the earliest is 1671, and it was reprinted into the 19th century) which attempts, through thirteen true-life stories, to save children from “falling into the everlasting fire” (A6r). James Janeway was a nonconformist minister who preached from a popular meeting-house on the Thames at Rotherhithe in Surrey. This work, like many of Janeway’s other publications, has a strongly evangelistic tone. The four small woodcut illustrations depict a child laid in a coffin while the family of the deceased look on, a pious child praying while his friends play in the background with a whip-and-top, a seated woman weaping and another praying in the background, and ?Job on the dungheap. Provenance: “Will. Willoughby” and “M H Willoughby, early signatures on the old flyleaves.

“ ... SHAKESPEERE, WHO (AS CUPID INFORMED ME) CREEPES INTO THE WOMENS CLOSETS ABOUT BED TIME ... ” [228] [JOHNSON (John)]. [The Academy of Love. Describing the Folly of Younge-men, and the Fallacie of women by Iohn Iohnson Gent.]. First Edition. Small 4to., [4], 35, 34-35, 39-96, 99-102 pp., lacking the letterpress title and the etched frontispiece/title by Hollar, i.e. A1-, but textually complete. Lower right corner repaired throughout with loss of four words to A3 diminishing thereafter, closely shaved at the head with loss of many upper rule borders and occasionally touching the headline, washed and pressed. Late 19th-century blue morocco by Wallis. [London: for H. Blunden, 1641] £1100 Wing J782 (British Library, Lincoln’s Inn Library, Thomas Plume’s Library [lacks frontispiece] in UK; Folger, Huntington, Illinois, Newberry Library [lacks frontispiece], Yale [lacks frontispiece] in USA). A light-hearted collection of observations on the way men are deceived by women, with a well-known allusion to Shakespeare: In Love’s Library “There was also Shakespeere, who (as Cupid informed me) creepes into the womens closets about bed time, and if it were not for some of the old out-of-date Grandames (who are set over the rest as their tutoresses) the young sparkish Girles would read in Shakespeere day and night, so that they would open the Booke or Tome, and the men with a Fescue in their hands should point to the Verse.” (99). Little is known about John Johnson (fl. 1641), writer and poet. He was likely a university wit, being a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1625 to 1629.

[229] JONSTONUS (Joannes). ROWLAND (John, M.D.), translator. An History of the Wonderful Things of Nature: Set forth in Ten severall Classes. Wherein are contained I. The Wonders of the Heavens. II. Of the Elements. III Of the Meteors. IV. Of Minerals. V. Of Plants. VI. Of Birds. VII. Of Four-footed Beasts. VIII. Of Insects, and things wanting blood. IX. Of Fishes. X. Of Man. First Edition in English. Small Folio., [16], 10, 17-354, [2] pp., with the final advertisement leaf and with O2 present in duplicate. Intermittently foxed, blank corner of M2 torn away (no loss of text), wax seal adhered to and subsequently removed from the verso of S2 and the recto of S3 (affected area is 20 x 20 mm) resulting in a small tear to S2 (no loss of text) and two small tears, paper weakening, and loss of approx. 10 words to the recto of S3. Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners and edges bumped and chipped, modern endpapers). London: by John Streater, 1657 £650 Wing J1017 (+;+). Joannes Jonstonus (or John Johnstone) was born in to émigré parents and schooled on the Continent before taking a place at the University of St Andrews in 1622. Johnstone was offered the post of chair of Medicine at the University of Leiden in 1640 but turned it down so he could remain an independent scholar. The present work, a miscellany of short essays on various subjects in natural history, is an English translation by John Rowland, M.D. of Thaumatographia naturalis a compilation of a number of works by Jonstonus that appeared separately on the continent. 104 MAGGS BROS LTD

[230] JOHNSON (Thomas). Mercurius Botanicus. Sive plantarum gratia suscepti itineris, anno M.DC.XXXIV. descriptio. Cum earum nominibus Latinis, & Anglicis, &c. Huic accessit de thermis Bathonis tractatus. First Edition, first issue (Part 1 of 2 only). 8vo., [6], 78 pp., without the first blank leaf, and lacking the second part (“De Urbe & Thermis Bathonicis”, G1-H3r, H4 blank, with a folding plate ). Title-page soiled and stained with two worm-holes to the inner margin (A2-A4), browned and spotted throughout with worming to lower gutter of gatherings B-F and a small tear to the top margin of final leaf. Mid 18th-century quarter calf, marbled boards (joints split at top and bottom, headcaps broken, corners bumped). London: Excudebat Thom[as & R.]. Cotes, 1634 £500 STC 14704 (+ U.K.; Folger [2 copies without part 3], Huntington [without part 3] & Virginia [without part 3] in USA). Reissued in 1641 with a third part (“Mercurii Botanici Pars Altera”, I-M3), an account of a botanical tour of Wales, not present here. Johnson, an apothecary, wrote a number of books on botany based on his field trips to Hampstead Heath and Kent. In 1633 he published his most important work, a revised edition of John Gerarde’s The Herbal or generall historie of plantes (STC 11751). “In 1634 Johnson travelled to the south-west of England staying for two months in Bath working both as an apothecary and preparing a work on the famous springs DeThermis Bathonicis (usually bound with this book, but not present here). Around this time he also began to compile the list of plants which would become Mercurius botanicus - “an important step towards the compilation of a complete list of British plants” (ODNB). Provenance: Clement Taylor Smythe, Town Clerk of Maidstone, Kent, and antiquary, with mid 19th-century signature “Clem. T. Smythe” on the front flyleaf.

[231] KILLIGREW (Thomas). The Prisoners and Claracilla. Two Tragae-Comedies. As they were presented at the Phoenix in Drury Lane, by her Mties Servants. First Edition. 12mo. Two Parts. [144]pp. Lightly browned with some spotting (especially on the general title), rust-hole in A8 with loss to one-line and in the margin of D8, slight worming in the lower margin of B7-C1, more substantial worming in the lower inner margin and text from the beginning to C12 (many leaves with old repairs to the wormholes), upper blank corner of C89 torn-away. London: by T. Cotes, for Andrew Crooke, 1641 [- 1640] £950 STC 14959 (as the subtitle for The Prisoners is dated 1640) and Wing K452 (+,+). Greg, English Drama, 619 & 620. The ESTC pagination [156]pp. is incorrect and the last leaf, F12, is not blank. The two plays, written in Italy in the Spring of 1636 and performed before 1641, were Killigrew’s only separately published works. They were reprinted in the folio Comedies and Tragedies (1664). With two preliminary verses (4pp.) in English and Latin by William Cartwright. Provenance: Signature on title “Jo. Thurbarne 1671”, perhaps the sergeant-at-law and M.P. for Sandwich in Kent; “J Revett”, later signature on 2nd leaf.

[232] KIRKWOOD (James). Rhetoricae compendium; cui subjicitur de Analysi tractatincula. Authore Iacobo Kirkwood Dumbarensi. Editio secunda. Priore castigatior; multo que concinnior. Second Edition. 12mo., 48, 37-46, [2] pp., with the final blank leaf. Tightly bound with the front flyleaf glued to the inner margin of the title affecting a few first words, e.g. the “E” of Edinburgi in the imprint is missing; fore-margins dusty, and with a single wormhole at the extreme lower edge of D6-E6. Mid-20th-century vellum, gilt edges. Edinburgh: George Mosman, 1696 £200 Wing K650 (National Library of Scotland, Aberdeen and Edinburgh University in UK; no copy in USA). ESTC lists two copies of this edition at Edinburgh University but one of these is a microfilm. Probably intended to be issued with the author’s Grammatica Despauteriana (1696-5), Wing K644, the privilege printed on the verso of the title includes both titles, but none of the few surviving copies are bound together. Rhetoricae compendium was first published in 1678, and it appeared in four revised editions (1696, 1708 and 1723). All four editions are very scarce: ESTC lists no copies of any of the editions in the USA. MAGGS BROS LTD 105

PRESENTATION COPY TO SIR PHILIP WARWICK [233] KNATCHBULL (Sir Norton). Animadversiones in libros Novi Testamenti. Iam tertia cura auctae & emendatae. Third Edition. Large paper Copy. 8vo., [8], 191, [1] pp., with the first blank leaf. Small damp stain to foot of B1 and lower corner of M1 creased. Original black morocco, covers outlined with a gilt double fillet and with a central panel of a double fillet and narrow flower-in-circle roll, a fleuron at the corners spine with five raised bands, the second panel lettered in gilt directly onto the spine, the others with a gilt centre ornament and corner scroll tools; gilt edges (joints rubbed, headcaps and corners slightly worn). Oxford: Excudebat Henry Hall, impensis R. Davis, 1677 £450 Wing K671 (+;+). A reissue with new preliminaries (a revised address to the reader and extended errata list) of the 1676 edition (Wing K670). First published in 1659, and reprinted again in 1672. “The work demonstrates a considerable breadth of learning, reflecting the author’s use of his large library. It is also intrepid in its arguments for considering historical circumstances and contemporary idiom, and for suggesting the existence of scribal errors in the transmission of the sacred text.”(ODNB). Provenance: 1: Sir Philip Warwick (1609-1683), politician and historian and ardent anti-Catholic [see ODNB], with his signature on the title “Phil: Warwick Ex dono authoris”. Knatchbull and Warwick were both residents of Kent; Warwick moved to Chislehurst in the mid-1670s whilst Knatchbull had taken over the family estate in Mersham Hatch in 1636. 2: Early ink price “0.2.6” on a front flyleaf. 3: Sir Edward Dolman Scott, 2nd Baronet (1793-1852), of Great Barr, Staffordshire, with mid-19th-century armorial bookplate.

[234] KNIGHT (Sir John). A Speech in the House of Commons against the Naturalizing of Foreigners. First Edition. 8vo in 4s, [2], 5-10, 9-19, [1], lacking the colophon leaf. Title-page and C2r soiled, edges bumped and with occasional spotting throughout. Disbound, with the remains of calf spine and stitching. London: by Edm. Powell, 1693 [i.e. ? 1710] £350 A controversial attack on allowing foreigners to settle in England which was condemned and burnt on its original publication in 1693 (Wing K687A). ESTC records copies of this edition at British Library, National Library of Scotland & Yale only, and notes that the printer of this edition, Edmund Powell, was active from 1708-11. A2 is signed “A3”. As M.P. for Bristol Knight “worked to protect Bristol’s trading interests in Africa and elsewhere, but he earned greatest fame for his popular attack on foreigners in the debate on a Naturalization Bill. His speech questioned the loyalty and integrity of the measure’s supporters; he concluded by moving that ‘let us first kick the bill out of the House, and then foreigners out of the kingdom’ (p.8). The Commons voted to condemn the speech in its published form and it was burnt by the hangman, though not before Knight had denied all knowledge of how it appeared in print.” - ODNB.

THE FIRST COMPLETE ENGLISH KORAN - WITH CONTEMPORARY ANNOTATIONS [235] KORAN. The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabique into French; by the sieur du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the King of France, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. First Edition. 8vo., [20], 405, [17] pp. With one of two terminal blanks. Title-page lightly soiled, initial gathering of eight leaves lightly dampstained along the blank lower margin, small hole to Cc3 with loss of about eight letters per page, small piece torn from blank margin of Ee5 with 106 MAGGS BROS LTD loss to double-rule border, light dampstaining to the lower blank margin of the final gathering, intermittent light soiling and foxing throughout. Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, corners and edges repaired, surface of the leather crazed by damp). London: Printed, Anno Dom., 1649 £3800 Wing K747A (+;+). K747 is a variant edition. The manuscript annotations begin on the title-page where an anonymous contemporary reader has written in Arabic: “The Qur’an of Muhammad translated from the Arabic tongue into the English tongue”. In some of the longer suras (e.g. al-baqqar, no. 2, and Joachim no. 3) verse numbers have been written-in, and throughout this copy the annotator has indicated where in the printed text a particular sheet ends – “sheet ‘n’ ends”. The sheet (or quire) numbers run from 1 (p. 6), 2 (p. 12) to 63 (p. 391 end sura 108) and “1/2 sheet” at the end of sura 114 on p. 393. Sometimes “sheets” end at the end of a sura, but at other times the breaks occur in the middle of text, and the breaks are sometimes marked with thus ). No indication is given as to what these refer to, but one could well suggest that it is a manuscript of the Qur’an in Arabic divided up approximately into 63 numbered quires plus a half quire. The Table of contents has each sura carefully ticked, as if indicating that it has been read, and in 2 places initials have been placed in the margin. At sura 20 (The chapter of beatitude and Hell ...), T.H., at sura 36 (The chapter inituled, O Man ...)Y.S, and at sura 38 (The chapter of Truth ...), S. It is not at all clear what these stand for, but they are perhaps personal initials. At suras 58 and 67 are written the marginal nos. 28 and 29, and these are picked up by Roman numerals XXVIII and XXIX at the beginning of those suras on pp. 341 and 356. These in fact form part of a whole series of sections numbered in Roman numerals up to thirty, and in each case the text is marked by a mark in the text ([). These must refer to another work using these sections of the text and, one presumes, divided into 30 sections but as yet we have not identified this. In addition there are a few notes written in ink in the margins as far as p. 35 Provenance: 1. R: P:, contemporary initials to the title-page. 2. Abraham Clerke, late 17th or early 18th-century signature to the front free endpaper.

[236] LA BRUYERE (Jean de). The Characters, or the Manners of the Age. By Monsieur De La Bruyere, of the French Academy. Made English by several hands. With the Characters of Theophrastus, translated from the Greek. And a Prefatory Discourse to them, by Monsieur de la Bruyere. To which is added, a Key to his Characters. First Edition in English. 8vo., [14], 288, 291-451, [28], 5-45, [3] pp., foxing and spotting to X-Ff and Hh. Contemporary panelled calf (lower joint split, corners slightly bumped, upper headcap broken). London: for John Bullord and sold by Matt Gilliflower; Ben. Tooke; [etc.], 1699 [- 1698] £180 Wing L104 (+;+). Provenance: Inscription on the pastedown “Josias Calnady May 7th 1699 pret 00--0”.

A RARE PLAN FOR A MERCHANT BANK IN LONDON IN A FINE TRACT VOLUME [237] LAMBE (Samuel). Seasonable Observations Humbly offered to his Highness the . By Samuel Lambe of London, Merchant. Small Folio., [2 (blank)], 12 [i.e. 20; numbered 1-19 & “12”] p; drophead title. Ostensibly lacking the 4 page “Postscript” but this was probably never intended to be added to this copy [see below]. Contemporary limp vellum, with “Miscellanies on the other side 1680” in contemporary manuscript on the front cover (vellum soiled, flyleaves rumpled and torn in places). London: at the Authors charge for the use and benefit of the English Nation, sold by William Hope, 1657. £3500 Wing L229 (British Library, Bodley, Dulwich College & Guildhall Library in UK; Columbia, Folger, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Folger in USA; National Library of Australia). A variant state (unrecorded by Wing and ESTC of a rare work calling for the creation of a bank in London, managed by representatives of each of the main companies of merchants, that would reduce the cost of credit for English merchants and encourage trade. This copy does not have the 4-page postscript that appears in most copies. However, it includes two additional pages of text not found in any of the known copies. Rather than ending on page 18 as each of the recorded copies does, this copy concludes on page 20 (misnumbered “12”). The final two pages were probably cancelled and replaced with the four page “postscript” as the original catchword of “TO” found on page 18 corresponds to the text found on page 19 in the present copy and not with the text in the added postscript. There are likely to be additional variants that have yet to be differentiated as the catchword “much” on page 12 of the text in this copy differs from that of the Folger copy reproduced on EEBO. MAGGS BROS LTD 107

[Bound with] 1: SHAFTESBURY (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of). The Case of Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury as it was Argued before His Majesties justices of the Kings Bench, Trin. Term. 29. Car. 2. Being upon his Confinement in the Tower &c. With a Speech of this Worthy Earl, pleading his own Case, and the Liberty of the Subject. London: by K.P. for C.R., 1679. First Edition. 16 pp. Uncut at the fore-edges. Wing C883 (+;+). 2: BLOUNT (Charles). An Appeal from the Country to the City, for the preservation of His Majesties Person, Liberty, Property, and the Protestant religion. [London: 1679]. First Edition. 7 [i.e. 8] pp; drophead title. Signed at the end “Junius Brutus”. Trimmed closely along the lower edge just shaving signature B1. Wing B3300AB (Bodley, Cambridge, Chester Cathedral, National Library of Scotland & Worcester College Oxford in UK; W.A. Clark, Harvard, Clark Library & Illinois in USA). 3: CLARENDON (Edward Hyde, Earl of). Two Letters Written by the Right Houourable [sic] Edward Earl of Clarendon, late Lord High Chancellour of England: one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York: the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by Her embracing the Roman Catholick religion. [London: 1680?]. First Edition. 4 pp; drophead title. Lower edge uncut. Wing C4429 (+;+). 4: D. (J.). A Word without Doors Concerning the Bill for Succession. [London: 1679]. First Edition. Folio., 4 pp. Page numbers just touched by the binder. Wing D48 (+;+) 5: SMITH (Francis). Some Observations Upon the Late Tryals of Sir George Wakeman, Corker and Marshal, &c. by Tom. Tickle-foot the Taborer, late Clerk to Justice Clodpate. London: for A. Brewster, 1679. First Edition. 8, 7-9, [1] pp. A small spot on B1 and a stain on the blank verso of the final leaf. Wing S4540 (+;+). 6: An Impartial Account of Divers Remarkable Proceedings the last Sessions of Parliament relating to the Horrid Popish Plot &c. […]. London: Printed Anno 1679. [2], 10, 3-6, 15-26 pp. Some light occasional spotting. Wing I62 (+;+). 7: SMITH (John, of Walworth). The Narrative of Mr. John Smith of Walworth, in the County Palatine of Durham, Gent. Containing a further Discovery of the late Horrid and Popish-Plot. […]. London: Printed, and are to be sold by Robert Boulter, 1679. [8], 35, [1] pp. With the imprimatur leaf and the final errata leaf. Small spot to the title-page, small holt to C2 (affecting three or four letters of text), F2-G2 with spotting and a small burn hole to F2 (affecting a letter or two of text), and with a small stain in the blank fore-margin,. Wing S4127 (+;+). 8: SARPI (Paolo). A Treatise of Matters Beneficiary by Fra Paolo Sarpi [...] Newly Translated out of Italian, according to the best and most perfect Copy Printed at Mirandola, Anno Dom. 1676. London: by Thomas Hodgkin, and are to be sold by William Crook, and Richard Bently, 1680. [8], 42, 53-84 pp. Light dampstaining to the blank fore-margin of gatherings A-C, lightly spotted and soiled throughout. Wing S701 (+;+). 9: COTTON (Sir Robert). The Antiquity and Dignity of Parliaments. London: Printed Anno Domini, 1679. [2], 13, [1] pp., with the initial blank. Title-page with light ink stain to the blank fore-margin. Wing C648 (British Library, National Library of Scotland, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, Worcester College Oxford in UK; + in USA). Originally published in 1642 as The forme of government of the kingdome of England (Wing C6492) by the antiquary Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631). Provenance: 1: An anonymous contemporary owner has written a list of contents on the front flyleaf. 2: William ?Born, receipt dated 11 January 1750 to the recto of the third free endpaper, recording the receipt of £1 - 10 - 0 from Andrew Lowe “for work don rownd the incloosed meddow”. An account, in the same hand, recording three transactions “Received of my master for his use £2-22-0” dated “Novr ye 17 1750”, is written on the verso of the rear flyleaf. 3: William Wensley, signature, dated 1887, on the blank verso of the final text leaf of The Narrative of Mr. John Smith.

[238] LA PEYRERE (Isaac de). Men before Adam. Or a Discourse upon the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth Verses of the Fifth Chapter of the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Romans. By which are prov’d, that the first Men were created before Adam. First Edition. 8vo., [16], 61, [19], 351, [1] pp., small folding engraved map of the Holy Land at p. 78 (old repairs to a tear). Sheets D, E, N, and P foxed, small tear to the blank lower right corner of Aa2, minor worming in the lower margin of the first few leaves (some with old repairs). Early 19th-century diced russia, marbled edges (rebacked and recornered, with new endleaves). London: [by Francis Leach], 1656. £950 Wing L427 (+;+) “Born into a French Protestant family, which may perhaps have had Jewish ancestry, Isaac de La Peyrere (1596-1676) was the author of one of the most controversial books of the seventeenth century. According to La Peyrere, Adam and Eve had been created to be the parents of the Jews, God’s chosen people. At the time of their creation, the Gentiles already existed, and peopled the whole earth outside Eden; at the Fall, Adam’s sin was imputed back to them. Many of the events related in the Old Testament affected the Jews only, for example, Noah’s Flood was confined to Palestine.” - Bennett & Mandelbrote. Written circa 1642/3 but only published in in 1655, as Praeadamitae, with the encouragement of ex-Queen Christina of it ignited a literal firestorm of controversy, being publicly burnt in Paris and banned in Holland. La Peyere was arrested in Brussels, converted speedily to Catholicism, and was sent to Rome where he met the Pope. In England the stationers Thomas Underhill and Nathaniel Webb petitioned the Privy Council on 24 October 1655 to 108 MAGGS BROS LTD

ban the English translation, then in the press, on the grounds that it “was putting a blasphemous slur on the Bible testimony concerning the creation of man” - Bennett and Mandelbrote, quoting the Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1655, p. 393. Provenance: 1: Cornelius Paine, with signature on a front flyleaf and armorial bookplate remounted on the front pastedown, sale, Sotheby, 16/2/1891. 2: George T. White, with slightly later label. Literature: Jim Bennett & Scott Mandelbrote, The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple (Oxford, 1998), no. 84.

[239] LA SERRE (Jean Puget de). The Secretary in Fashion: or, an Elegant and Compendious way of Writing all manner of Letters. Composed in French by Sir De la Serre Chief Historiographer to the King of France. The Fourth Edition: Newly Revised, and very much Augmented with a Collection of many choice Letters written by the most Refined Wits of France. Also, some new Additions to the Complements and Elegancies of the French Tongue: Never Publish’d before. Fourth Edition. 8vo., [34], 85, [3], 110, [2], 38, [2], 54 pp., engraved frontispiece depicting a secretary handing a letter to a postman whilst Mercury looks on (slightly shaved at the fore-edge). Very small piece torn away from the blank corners of D3 and T3, large (40mm) closed tears across the centre of E4, 7mm tear across H6, and with small rust spots on N3 and Q4. Contemporary sheep (small circular hole in the leather on the front cover, headcaps missing, head of the spine damaged by insects, lower corners worn; no pastedowns). London: for J.M. and are to be sold by Rowland Reynolds, 1668 £600 Wing L461A (British Library and Folger only). First translated into English in 1640 (STC 20491) by John Massinger (the dedication to Thomas Berney and address to the reader from the translator are signed “J.M.”). Letter-writing manuals had been popular since Angel Day’s The English Secretorie. (1586), and spawned a number of significant imitators. La Serre’s manual follows much the same pattern by providing a standard template letter for numerous social circumstances which could be adapted to suit the writers circumstances. This edition includes the revisions and augmentations of the second edition (1654) and the new additons of the third [“second”] edition (1658), but nothing else new as advertised on the title. Provenance: Inscription on the front flyleaf “E Libris Thomae Pyrke A:D: 172 [sic]” and on the rear flyleaf “Thomas Pyrke His Booke 172.” MAGGS BROS LTD 109

[240] LAWRENCE (Anthony) & BEALE (John). Nurseries, Orchards, Profitable Gardens, and Vineyards Encouraged, the present Obstructions removed, and probable Expedients for the better Progress proposed; for the general benefit of his Majesties Dominions, and more particularly of Cambridge, and the Champaign-Countries, and Northern parts of England. In Several Letters out of the Country, directed to Henry Oldenburg, Esq; Secretary to the Royal Society. The first letter from Anthony Lawrence; all the rest from John Beale, D.D. and Fellow of the Royal Society. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 28 pp. Early 20th-century quarter black morocco and marbled boards (boards a little rubbed and faded). London: for Henry Brome, 1677 £950 Wing L651 (+;+). There are, in fact, only two letters, one each from Lawrence (pp. 1-18) and Beale (pp. 19-28), to Henry Oldenburg, secretary to the Royal Society, regarding the propagation of fruit-trees and vines for the producing of cider and wine, together with a preface by Beale addressed to Oldenburg which could be counted as a third letter. Lawrence is mainly concerned with the establishment of orchards for the production of ciders and fruit-wines. Beale discourses on the ease with which vines can be propagated all over England, Wales, Ireland, and parts of Scotland for the benefit of the poor, before discussing the different sorts of wines from France, , Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Canaries, and even Canada and America (“the Canada grape is in some esteem here. But what is that alone to the infinite variety of better Vines, even in New England, which cultivate themselves without mans aid; of better yet in Virginia and Carolina. I must also name Barbados, Jamaica, &c.”). He ends with a plea to nurserymen and seedsmen to introduce more plants from “our American Plantations”. In a letter to Robert Boyle, dated 29 Nov. 1676, Beale sends him a copy while deprecating the contents: “First that you will pardon a few wild sheets bearing the Tytle of nurseryes, & my name, but (in truth) They are not myne: For they came soe hastily from my over Runing pen, & slipt away, out of my power soe Suddainly, that they never had one minute of my second Thoughts: Neither had they blasted my name abroad, if Mr Oldenburghs perswasions had not prevailed with mee, then my owne Judgment & the sense of my owne Reputation.” - Michael Hunter, etc., eds, The Correspondence of Robert Boyle (2001), vol. Iv, p. 431. Provenance: Francis Edwards catalogue cutting on the rear pastedown (1943, £3).

[241] LAWRENCE (Thomas). Mercurius Centralis: or, a Discourse of Subterraneal Cockle, Muscle, and Oyster-shels, found in the digging of a well at Sir William Doylie’s in Norfolk, many foot under ground, and at considerable distance from the sea. Sent in a letter to Thomas Brown, M.D. by Tho. Lawrence, A.M. First Edition. 12mo., [10], 94, [2] pp., with the imprimatur leaf and final blank, woodcut diagram on p. 84. Final two leaves slightly stained by the red edges, occasionally closely shaved (affecting the marginal notes in places), hole through the centre of B6 (touching one word), very small piece torn away from the fore-edge of D9-10. Contemporary sheep (rebacked, morocco label, edges scuffed, endleaves browned by the turn-ins). London: by J[ohn]. G[rismond]. for J. Collins, 1664 £500 Wing L689D (+;+). Keynes, Sir Thomas Browne, 232. Part of the issue has Richard Royston’s name as bookseller in place of Collins. Reissued in 1668 as A Discourse of Subterraneal Treasure. A letter from Lawrence to Sir Thomas Browne regarding the “subterraneal cockle, muscle, and oyster-shels, found in the digging of a well” in Norfolk. Provenance: St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, with early 18th-century armorial bookplate on verso of title-page.

[242] LEE (Joseph). Eutaxia tou agrou: Or a Vindication of a Regular Inclosure. Wherein is plainly proved, that inclosure of commons in general and the inclosure of Catthorp in the county of Leicester in particular, are both lawful and laudable. As also that those evils which do too usually accompany inclosure, but of some inclosures only. First Edition. Small 4to., [6], 36pp. Heavily foxed throughout, 15 x 15mm defect from a paper flaw to the lower blank margin of C4 (text not affected), and with the fore-edges slightly bumped. Originally part of a tract volume, rebound in 18th-century boards (rebacked, corners bumped, new endleaves). London: by E.C. and are to be sold by Thomas Williams, 1656 £350 Wing L843A (British Library, Leeds and Senate House Library in UK; Harvard only in USA). 110 MAGGS BROS LTD

This pamphlet was preceeded by an earlier publication entitled Considerations concerning common fields (1653, Wing L843) - a reply to a pamphlet by John Moore. Lee staunchly supported enclosures, and as rector of Cottensbach in Leicestershire, had been responsible for enclosing the village lands. Lee argues that the enclosing of Catthorp is lawful and laudable as “it is profitable to all concerned therein” (A4r). He then goes on to provide a question-and-answer format on the subject, before using biblical teaching to prove his point. Provenance: 1: Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725), the Oxford bibliophile, with his characteristic ink “C & P” and lot number ‘1216’ in ink on the flyleaf. 2: JSC’s pencil annotations to the front flyleaf.

“A NASTY DOG-HOLE, FULL OF RATS, AND MICE” [243] LEIGHTON (Alexander). An Epitome or briefe discoverie, from the beginning to the ending, of the many and great troubles that Dr. Leighton suffered in his Body, Estate, and Family, for the space of twelve years and upwards. ... First Edition. Small 4to., [100] pp., without the first and last blank leaves; uncut at the fore-edge and tail. Upper margin of the final leaf partly torn-away with an old repair on the blank verso; lightly spotted in places. Modern half calf and marbled boards. London: by I[ohn]. D[awson]., 1646 £850 Wing L1024 (British Library, Bodley, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland Trinity College Dublin in UK & Ireland; + in USA). Only edition of the first-hand account of the hardships endured by Alexander Leighton (c.1570-1649) during his eleven-year imprisonment for sedition which left him blind, deaf and crippled. Leighton first agitated for the abolition of the episcopacy by publishing, while in self-imposed exile in Holland, An Appeale to the Parliament, or Sions plea against the prelacy in 1628. He returned to England in July 1629 but on 17 February 1630, the authorities arrested him for sedition. This work describes in horrific detail his treatment and punishment - he was pilloried during a snow storm, had his ear cut off, his nose sliced, and was branded with the mark of sedition. When he was released by Parliament in 1641 he could “neither see, hear, nor walke” (p. 3). Upon his release from prison Leighton was appointed keeper of Lambeth Palace which was then in use as a military prison.

[244] LEMNIUS (Levinus). The Secret Miracles of Nature: In four Books. Learnedly and Moderately treating of Generation, and the Parts thereof; the Soul, and its Immortality; of Plants and living Creatures; of Diseases, their Symptoms and Cures, and many other Rarities not treated of by any Author Extant; [...] Whereunto is added one Book containing Philosophical and Prudential Rules how Man shall become Excellent in all conditions, whether high or low, and lead his Life with Health of Body and Mind. Fit for the use of those that practise Physick, and all Others that desire to search into the hidden Secrets of Nature, for increase of Knowledg. First Edition in English. Folio., [16] 398 pp., without the final blank leaf. Lightly browned throughout, intermittent spots and minor stains throughout. Contemporary sheep, covers ruled in blind (joints rubbed and split at top and bottom, foot of spine torn, corners worn, no rear flyleaf). London: by Jo. Streater, and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley, John Sweeting, John Clark, and George Sawbridge,1658 £1800 Wing L1044 (+;+). The Dutch physician Levinus Lemnius or Lemmens’s De miraculis occultis naturae first appeared in Latin in 1559 and was subsequently expanded. This English translation developed a specific British context, in that it served as a source for later works on natural history and medicine and as an early sex- manual. “Sarah Jinner, the first female almanac-writer in English, recommended it to her reading public in 1659, saying that ‘the reason why I recommend this piece, is, that our Sex may be furnished with knowledge: if they knew better, they would do better’.” - Mary E. Fissell, Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2004), p.198). In 1664 Streater published a smaller volume with those passages relating to human reproduction as A Discourse touching Generation. ... Fit for the use of Physitians, Midwifes, and all young Married People. Provenance: 1: D. Taylor, early 19th-century signature on the front flyleaf. 2: Charles Clark (1806-1880), of Great Totham Hall, Essex, eccentric and antiquary, known as the Bard of Totham, with verse bookplate dated 1863. MAGGS BROS LTD 111

[245] [LESLIE (William Lewis)]. The Idaea of a perfect Princesse, in the life of St. Margaret Queen of Scotland. With Elogiums on her Children, David, and Mathilda Queen of England. Written originally in French; now Englished. First Edition. 8vo., [20], 101, [1] pp. Small piece torn from the blank fore-margin of A7 (no loss of text), minor ink stains on C1v and D2r, a portion of the text of the verso of A3 lightly printed due to inadequate inking, lightly soiled and stained thoughout. Mid-19th-century red morocco, gilt edges (joints and corners rubbed). Paris: Anno 1661 £1250 Wing L1173 (+;+). Only edition of the life of the St. Margaret of Scotland translated and published abroad by recusants as an instructional book for women. St. Margaret of Scotland (ca. 1045-1093), was canonised in 1250 by Pope Innocent IV for her personal piety, steadfast adherence to the Roman and her works of charity. The Scots’ College at Rome was particularly devoted to the memory of Scotland’s royal saint, Margaret. “Concern for the memory of Margaret is particularly associated with William Lewis (or Aloysius) Leslie, the Jesuit who was rector [of the Scots’ College Rome] from March 1674 to November 1683 and again from June 1692 to September 1695. He had family reasons for revering the memory of Margaret. The buckles and ‘Grip Fast’ motto of the Leslies ... recall the legend of their ancestor who was chamberlain to Queen Margaret and saved her life when fording a dangerous river on horseback. Fr. Leslie co-operated with his cousin and namesake Mr. William Leslie, Roman Agent of the Scottish Mission over many years and archivist of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, in a successful 1673 petition to the Congregation of Rites, asking Pope Clement X to extend St. Margaret’s feast to the universal church” (McIntyre, John. “St. Margaret and the Scots College Rome”, Innes Review, vol. 44, p. 186). The work also includes a postscript by the translator, “clearly proving his majesties [Charles II] right and title, to the crown of England ... because he is lineally descended from St. Margaret, the true heir of the Saxon monarchy” (91-92). There is a manuscript correction to B5v correcting “eyes” to “son”, and numerous manuscript corrections of typographical errors. Provenance: 1: Early shelfmark to the head of the title-page. 2: Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), Oxford antiquary and book collector. Bliss has added his characteristic “P” in manuscript before signature “B” (to form his initials) and has also added, just to the right, the number 44 indicating the year he acquired this copy (1844). 3: Catherine Lloyd, early 20th-century signature on the flyleaf.

THE FIRST [246] LIGON (Richard). A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados illustrated with a Mapp of the Island, as also the Principall Trees and Plants there, set forth in their due Proportions and Shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective Scales. Together with the Ingenio that makes the Sugar, with the Plots of the severall Houses, Roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processe of Sugar-making; viz. the Grinding-room, the Boyling-room, the Filling-room, the Curing-house, Still- house, and Furnaces; all cut in Copper. First Edition. Small Folio. [12], 122, [4] pp., eleven engraved plates, five of which are folding, with the rare and often lacking map of Barbados (tear to the folding plates at p. 84). Light waterstaining to the upper quarter of the first 20 pages, further isolated light waterstaining to the upper quarter from pp. 65-90. Contemporary sheep, remains of old paper label on spine (joints split but firm, old patches at top and bottom of joints split again, spine worn, corners and edges bumped and scraped, one top corner broken, covers scuffed and rubbed, small patch on front cover; pastedowns unstuck). London: printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1657 £5000 Wing L2075 (+;+). A good crisp copy of the first history of Barbados and an important source for early British colonial involvement in the Caribbean at a time when sugar and slaves were transforming the economies and social life of the and the only such account published in the 17th century. In A True & Exact History Ligon “wrote vividly of the environment, economy, and society of the newly successful English colony. He witnessed the sugar revolution and the transition to African slavery as the principal labour system. He offered detailed and illustrated descriptions of the growing and processing of sugar and of the plants and animals of the island. He also provided vivid portraits of the island’s inhabitants - English, African, and Indian. Ligon’s presentation of Barbados was designed to show his own accomplishments as musician, chef, mathematician, and classical scholar. He took his theorbo with him to Barbados, and tried to raise the cultural tone of the colony. Ligon’s exact role on Barbados is unclear. He was a gentleman, as he stated on his title-page, but he clearly worked as an overseer or plantation manager.” - ODNB. Of the engravings the most noteworthy is the large folding map, “Topographicall Description and Ad[sic] Measurement of the Yland of Barbados in the West 112 MAGGS BROS LTD

Indyaes with the M[aste]rs names of the severall plantacons”, bound before the first page. As well as depicting horsemen in pursuit of runaway slaves, it also shows camels. 1: Early motto in ink at the head of the front flyleaf “Omne tulit punctu[m]” [Horace, “he has won every point”] and, in another hand, purchase price “Pretium 5s-0d”. 2: Christie family, of Glyndebourne Manor, Sussex [home of the famous opera company], with 20th-century label. 2: Mildred Barnes Bliss [Mrs ] (1879-1969, of , Washington, D.C.; sold by the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library (Harvard University), Christie, 24/11/1976, lot 226, £320 + premium to Maggs.

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THREE ASTROLOGICAL PAMPHLETS [247] LILLY (William). Anglicus, peace, or no peace. 1645. A probable conjecture of the state of England, and the present Differences betwixt His Majestie and the Parliament of England now sitting at Westminster, for this present yeer, 1645. An exact Ephemeris of the daily motions of the Planets; with an easie Introduction to the use thereof. Monethly - Observations. A Table of Houses, and Explanation thereof. To which is added, a modest Reply to M. Wharton, and the Prognostication of his present Almanak printed at Oxford, for 1645. First Edition. Small 4to., [8], 88 pp., “An Ephemeris” has a separate title-page, with a number of astrological tables, diagrams and an equation. Unevenly cut, closely shaved along the upper edge (touching pagination in a few places and occasionally the text MAGGS BROS LTD 113 block) but uncut at the fore-edge, some minor spotting to A2-B3 and an ink blot on A4-B1. Late 18th-century half calf and marbled boards (boards faded showing a double-column printing of an English atlas underneath). London: by J.R. for John Partridge and Humphrey Blunden, 1645 £280 Wing L2217 (+;+). [Bound after]: LILLY (William). A Collection of Ancient and Moderne Prophesies concerning these present Times, with Modest Observations thereon. The Nativities of Thomas Earle of Strafford, and late , His Majesties great Favorites; Astrologicall Judgements upon their Scheames; and the Speech intended by the Earle of Strafford to have beene spoken at his Death. By William Lilly student in Astrologie. London: John Partridge and Humphrey Blunden, 1645. First Edition. [8], [52 of 54], [2] pp., lacking text leaf B4. Edges a little browned and with the upper edge closely shaved in places (occasionally touching running-titles). Wing L2207 (+;+). [Bound with]: WHARTON (George). An Astrologicall Judgement upon his Majesties present Martch: begun from Oxford, May 7. 1645. As it was printed at Oxford by H. Hall [i.e. London], 1645. Second Edition (“a re-print of the first Oxford edition” - Madan). [12] pp. Small stain in the lower inner margin, closely shaved along the upper edge (touching head-title on [par]3v and *1-2), final two leaves a little browned. Wing W1542 (+;+), Madan II, 1781. Anglicus, peace, or no peace and An astrological judgement brought the rivalry bewtween the parliamentarian sympathiser, William Lilly and the Royalist, George Wharton to a head and consequently the parliamentary victory at the battle of Naseby “spectacularly confirmed Lilly’s pre-eminence over the unfortunate royalist almanac-writer.” (ODNB).

[248] [LILY (William)]. A Short Introduction of Grammar generally to be used: compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those that intended to attain to the knowledge of Latine tongue. 8vo., [74], 130, [28] pp., interleaved with blank paper throughout. Title-page stained by the turn-ins and with a crease across the centre. Contemporary (probably Cambridge) calf; covers ruled in blind and with a small blind fleuron in the corners, smooth spine with the blind fleuron at the head and foot (rebacked, preserving the original spine, three very small worm holes on the upper cover, corners slightly worn; pastedowns unstuck). Cambridge: John Field, 1660 £400 Wing L2280B (Bury St. Edmund’s Cathedral only). ESTC lists this as being at the Suffolk Records Office. The second part, Brevissima Institutio, has a separate title and pagination but continuous register. A late edition of Lilly’s famous Latin grammar for schoolboys. Provenance: A few pages with ink marginal markings and there are a couple of annotations.

[249] LING (Nicholas). Politeuphuia, Wits Common-wealth. Newly corrected and amended. ?Twenty-fourth Edition. 12mo., [6], 321, [7 ] pp. Lightly browned throughout, light damp-stain to the lower blank margin of gatherings E, F, G , N and O, small ink stain to I1 and N5. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep (rebacked, re-cornered, new endleaves). London: by E. Flesher, and are to be sold by Edward Brewster, 1678 £250 Wing L2345 (British Library, Bodley, Cambridge, Dulwich College, Leeds University in UK; + in USA). Late edition (first published in 1597) of this immensely popular and frequently reprinted collection of sayings culled largely from the classics but also from Church Fathers, religious reformers and Renaissance writers such as Guicciardini, Sir and Sir Philip Sidney. The extracts are arranged under subjects such as adultery, bravery, chastity, dancing, eloquence, fortune, marriage, obedience, poetry, wit, etc. Provenance: 1: “Luke Poyntz His Book”, eighteenth century signature to the title-page. 2. John Bostocks, 18th-century signature to the lower margin of L10 and inscription, “at the nativity of Christ our Lord”, on the blank verso of the final leaf. 114 MAGGS BROS LTD

[250] LITURGY. A Directory for the Publique Worship of God, throughout the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Together with an Ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of Common-Prayer: And for establishing and observing of this present Directory throughout the kingdom of England, and dominion of Wales. Small 4to., [8], 86, [2]. Minor light ink staining to recto of [A1], title-page lightly soiled, small ink stain to the lower blank margin of sheets B-K, light dampstain to the blank upper margin of F1-M4. Contemporary sheep, gilt ruled spine and black morocco label (small section of repair to upper headcap, spine chipped and worn, covers bumped and lightly chipped). London: for Evan Tyler, Alexander Fifield, Ralph Smith, and John Field, 1644[/5] £400 Wing D1544 (+;+).An early printing of Parliament’s alternative to The Book of Common Prayer. Wing lists a total of 16 editions up to 1660 when it was abandoned. [Bound with:] An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the more effectuall putting in execution the Directory for Publique Worship, in all Churches and Chappelles within the Kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, and for the dispersing of them in all places and parishes within this Kingdome and the dominion of Wales. 48pp [London]: Printed by T.W. for Edw. Husband. 1646. Wing E1996 (+;+). Provenance: 1: L. Stephens, late 17th-century signature and purchase price “p/.1s. 6d” on verso of the title. 2: Early pen-trials and inscriptions on the blank recto of the imprimatur leaf: “Radwell in Comitatu Hartfordia” and “Luca Saunders Arum M[agist]ro ibidem sacris munis tum …” (repeated). 2: Thomas Rennell (1754-1840), Dean of Winchester and Master of the Temple. 3: Sidney W[?arre]. Cornish, signature dated 1840 noting that this copy was “from the library of the very Rev. Dr. Rennell, Dean of Winchester” on the front pastedown and with his manuscript notes on the front and rear pastedowns.4: Unidentified 20th- century armorial bookplate on the rear pastedown: arms: on a cross moline a bezant; crest: a demi-wolf rampant ducally gorged (Joyce).

[251] LLUELYN (Martin). Men-Miracles with other Poems. By M. LL. St of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Second Edition. 8vo., [16], 112 pp., without the first and last blank leaves; A8 (the Table) misbound between B1 & B2. First and last few leaves browned by the turn-ins, inner margin of B1-B4 spotted, margins lightly browned throughout, more generally browned at the end, minor tear (8mm) in the inner margin of B1, small damp-stain on A8 and E5. Contemporary sheep (spine worn, joints and spine chewed by insects at the foot, two corners chewed, front cover incised with a number of semi- and quarter-circles, upper headcap worn, no pastedowns). London: for Will. Shears Junior, 1656 £500 Wing L2626 (+;+). Reissued in 1661 as The Marrow of the Muses express’d in that excellent facetious poem stiled Men-miracles (Wing L2624 Bodley only). A varied collection of poems, lyrics and satires written whilst Lluelyn was serving in the royalist army and published in 1646. The title poem “Men-miracles” has been described as a “burlesque [...] laced with mock pedantry and satire directed at Presbyterians and parliamentarians” (ODNB). Loosely inserted is an ALS from Dennis E Rhodes of the British Museum to JSC dated 24th July 1962. Rhodes thanks Stevens-Cox for sending him the present copy of Men-Miracles and discusses his disocvery that there are two different 1656 editions - one a reissue of the 1646 first edition with a new title-page and the other (as here) a complete reprint. Provenance: Small manuscript library shelf mark pasted onto the inside front board and some ink pen-trials at the end.

JOHN LOCKE’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT [252] LOCKE (John), contributor. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. Musarum Oxoniensium ’elaiophoria. Sive, ob Faedera, Auspiciis Serenissimi Oliveri Reipub. Ang. Scot. & Hiber. Domini Protectoris, inter Rempub. Britannicam & Ordines Faederatos Belgii Faeliciter Stabilita, Gentis Togatæ ad vada Isidis Celeusma Metricum. First Edition. Small 4to. [4], 68, 89-104pp. Dampstained, mainly at the foot but spreading to the fore and upper margins at beginning and end, page number on p. 19/20 punched-through. Contemporary Oxford binding of limp vellum, covers ruled in gilt and with a central gilt panel with small acorns at the corners enclosing a central ornament of two fleurons and acorns, spine ruled in gilt with an acorn in four of the panels, faded ink title in the second panel (vellum rather stained, pastedown and front flyleaf loose, remains of one of the four pink silk ties). Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1654 £1500 Wing O902 (+;+). Madan, Oxford Books, III, 2243. Jean S. Yolton, John Locke: a descriptive bibliography, no. 251. John C. Attig, The Works of John Locke, no. 1. MAGGS BROS LTD 115

Locke’s short 8-line Latin poem on p. 45 and 44-line English poem on pp. 94-95 celebrate England’s victory in the first Anglo-Dutch War. “The collection written on the occasion of a treaty between the Commonwealth Government and the Belgian , includes poems from Dr. Busby, John Wall, Nathaniel Crewe, Robert South, and others, chiefly Christ Church men”. - Yolton. Provenance: 1: Thomas Alcock, with contemporary ink inscription on the flyleaf “Ex Libris Thomas Alcock / my mirror to spie fooles and rebells in. 1655” on the front flyleaf. 2: Lewis Ashhurst Majendie (1835-1870), M.P. for Canterbury 1874-78, bookplate on the pastedown and pencil signature on flyleaf

[253] LOCKE (John). An Essay concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books. First Edition, so-called “Second Issue”. [12], 362, [22]pp. Title-page coming slightly unstuck from its stub at the head and tail and the first few leaves are lightly browned and dampstained; affected by damp in the top quarter and fore-margins throughout with some light mould-spotting in the top margin and top corners of pp. 1-65, small piece torn from the fore-margin of C2, Bb1 and Kk3, short closed vertical tear at the head of X1 (into the headline), small rust-hole in D4 (in the text), Oo2 (in the margin), Ss2 (one in the text, one in the margin), otherwise occasional minor spots, marks, small ink-blots. Folio. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, plain spine (joints rubbed, upper headcap split, some insect damage to the surface of the leather on the covers, corners bumped, front inside joint splitting, turn-ins on the rear cover splitting away from the boards at the head with splits in the pastedown, endleaves dampstained, front and rear flyleaves partly loose at the head. London: for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory, 1690 £9500 Wing L2739 (+,+). ESTC lists 10 copies in UK and 10 in USA. Pforzheimer 600. Printing and the Mind of Man, 164. Yolton, Locke, 61B. Attig, Locke, 228. The so-called “second issue” with the cancelled title-page. It is reset using the same type with the printer Elizabeth Holt’s name removed from the imprint and the bookseller Edward Mory’s name and address added but the “SS” of “Essay” are accidentally inverted and the small typographical ornaments are arranged unevenly in rows of 4,5,5,5,4. As usual with copies of this issue it does not have the manuscript alterations in the preliminaries. Although the title with the “Eliz. Holt” imprint was printed first it does not necessarily indicate any priority of actual issue but merely that Thomas Basset reached an agreement with Edward Mory for him to take up a part of the edition and that a special title-page for his share was provided. It is not known how large the edition was, between 500 and 900 copies has been suggested, or what portion of it was taken by Mory but it was certainly a minority. It was quite common for books to be split up in this way between more than one bookseller at the time of publication. Sometimes the press was stopped part-way through the run and the imprint was altered and sometimes, as here, a substitute title-page was provided. Locke’s presentation copies (a list of 48 names survives) naturally came from Basset’s stock with the “first issue” title. Although Locke’s name does not appear on the title of this first edition, he was sufficiently proud of the work to append his name to the dedicatory epistle to Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery, but in the Epistle to the Reader he deprecated his own efforts: “The Commonwealth of Learning, is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such masters, as the Great ------Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; ’tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing the Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge; ...”. How wrong he was quickly became apparent and it has been said of An Essay concerning Humane Understanding that “few of the works which have made epochs in philosophy have made their way so rapidly. Locke became at once the leading philosopher of the time.” (DNB). “The epistemological doctrines of the Essay were subjected to acute criticism by other philosophers from Berkeley onwards, but this did little to shake their acceptability to the educated public. Locke was seen as having given a plain unmetaphysical account of the workings of the human mind that could serve as a complement to Newton’s account of the physical universe.” (J. R. Milton, ODNB). Provenance: 1: John Goodwin, lightly crossed-through signature on the front flyleaf. This is surrounded by four pages of contemporary ink notes in another hand in Latin on the front two flyleaves running on with a final three lines on the rear flyleaf, fairly faded and in a quite difficult hand, but mostly legible. 2: In another early 18th-century hand on the rear flyleaf is a short list of book titles in ink “Gordon’s Gramer, The World in ye Moon, Grotius de jure belli et pacis, Puffendorf, Tattlers et Spectators, The Gazateers interpreter, Lock upon government”. Illegible two-line ink note (inverted) on one of the rear contents; leaves, beginning “Gods ...”. 3: Early 19th-century signature of “Henry Johnstone 1808” with a later different hand “John” written over the Henry, making John Johnstone.

[254] LOCKE (John). WYNNE (John), editor. An Abridgment of Mr. Locke’s Essay concerning Humane Understanding. First Edition. 8vo., [8], 310, [10]pp. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in gilt (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves). London: for A. and J. Churchill and Edw. Castle, 1696 £575 116 MAGGS BROS LTD

Wing L2735 (+;+). Wynne’s abridgement was designed to lighten the “burden” on readers who found Locke’s original too difficult. Provenance: JSC’s pencil purchase note “2/6 1928 From Tom Matthews Bristol” and “Rebacking 1928 2/6 Langdon and Davis”.

[255] [LOCKE (John)]. [POPPLE (William), translator]. A Letter concerning Toleration: Humbly Submitted, &c. First Edition in English. Small 4to., [8], 61, [3 (advertisements)], with the half-title. Very light dampstaining to the inner and upper margins throughout, small hole in margin of C4, stains to the lower part of leaves F4-G4 and I1 (touching text), but otherwise a clean copy. Mid-20th-century red morocco. London: for Awnsham Churchill, 1689 £1200 Wing L2747 (+;+). Yolton, Locke, no. 3. Attig, Locke, no. 51. A Letter concerning Toleration, Locke’s first separately published work, was originally written in Latin and published in Gouda in April 1689. The work develops the theory of toleration that Locke had already discussed in his Essay concerning toleration (1667). Locke called for the separation of church and state as well as the toleration of any religious body which does not inhibit civil society “without any pretence of superiority or jurisdiction over one another”. Later in the same year William Popple produced this English translation of the Epistola de tolerantia. Popple used a Latin manuscript lent to him by Locke to complete the translation although he “has been criticized for slanting his translation to reflect the political situation in England” (Yolton). Popple’s translation quickly sold out and was reprinted on numerous occasions along with two further letters by Locke (in 1690 and 1691) in response to criticism by the Oxford clergyman Jonas Proast.

[256] LOCKE (John). Mr. Locke’s Reply to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcester’s Answer to his Letter, concerning some Passages relating to Mr. Locke’s Essay of Humane Understanding: in a late Discourse of his Lordships, in Vindication of the Trinity. First Edition. 8vo., [2], 174, [2], 7, [5] pp. Small ink stains to title-page, half-title a little soiled and with deleted ink notes. Contemporary blind panelled calf (rebacked, new endleaves; once part of a pamphlet volume but rebound in its covers). London: by H. Clark, for A. and J. Churchill, and E. Castle, 1697 £320 Wing L2753 (+;+) The second of Locke’s responses to Stillingfleet’s objections. This edition also includes Locke’s reply to Burnet’s Remarks, entitled An Answer to Remarks upon An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Provenance: Early ink signature and notes on the the half-title deleted.

[257] LOCKE (John). Posthumous works of Mr. John Locke: viz. I. Of the conduct of the understanding. II. An examination of P. Malebranche’s opinion of seeing all things in God. III. A discourse of miracles. IV. Part of a fourth Letter for toleration. V. Memoirs relating to the life of Anthony first Earl of Shaftsbury. To which is added, VI. His new method of a common-place book, written originally in French, and now translated into English. First Edition. 8vo., [4], 336 pp. Very light stain to centre of B8, semi-circular (40mm x 20mm) piece missing from a paper flaw in the lower margin of G5 (not touching text), and a couple of small ink blots on O1-2. Fine copy in contemporary blind-panelled calf, red morocco label (upper front corner worn, endleaves lightly browned). London: by W.B. for A. and J. Churchill, 1706 £950 Attig, Locke, 724; Pforzheimer 609. (+,+) Locke died in 1704, and this collection was published by his literary executors Anthony Collins and Sir Peter King. Pp. 312-3, Locke’s scheme for “A New Method of a Common-Place-Book” are printed in red and black. Provenance: Two heavily deleted early ink inscriptions on the front flyleaf: “E Lib: Ld. Land[...]ock Pretium [...] 1721/22” [we have not been able to identify a peerage that would fit and it does not seem to be Lanhydrock] and another below dated 1724. MAGGS BROS LTD 117

[258] LOCKE (John). Some Familiar Letters between Mr. Locke, and several of his Friends. First Edition. 8vo., [4], 540 pp. Paper flaw to the lower blank margin of F2 (no loss of text), small hole (paper flaw) to L7 with loss of a letter or two to the verso, small tears to the blank lower margin of L7 and M2, ink stain to the blank inner margin of T7, some light soiling to the blank upper margin throughout. A fine, fresh copy bound in contemporary brown calf, upper board with gilt tooled “I*PHELIPPS* / Y*” with three small daisy tools dividing it, framed by a floral roll, with large acorn tools at corners, spine divided into five panels with red morocco label to second panel and with the other panels tooled in gilt, sprinkled edges (head of spine chipped, joints rubbed, corners bumped, edges rubbed). London: printed for A. and J. Churchhill, 1708 £600 Pforzheimer, 611. Printed four years after Locke’s death, “this collection of letters is unusual for the reason that unlike the customary practice it contains both sides of the correspondence” (Pforzheimer, p. 629). The first 296 pages of the work consist of letters, in English, to and from the Irish experimental philosopher and constitutional writer William Molyneux (1656-1698), a man who “has a claim to be considered the founder of modern science in Ireland” (ODNB). After page 296, the correspondent becomes Philip Limborch (1633-1712), a professor of divinity among the Remonstrants in Amsterdam and the letters are in French and Latin. Provenance: Rev. John Phelips (d. 1766, aged 39), Vicar of Yeovil 1756-66, of Newton Surmaville, Yeovil, Somerset; 2nd son of Edward Phelips, of , Somerset, with his name in gilt on the front cover. The remains of the family library at Newton Surmaville were finally sold at auction in 2007, but this, and other volumes in our previous Stevens-Cox catalogues, was sold several decades ago.

[259] LOCKE (John). Some Thoughts concerning Education. Second Edition. 8vo., [8], 262, [2] pp. Paper flaw at the corner of C1-2, very small ink blot just touching the fore-edge of C5-6, large piece torn away from the blank fore-margin of G1 and the lower edge of O8, small tears to D7 and O1. Contemporary sprinkled calf, upper board gilt stamped “I*PHELIPPS* / Y*” with three small daisy tools dividing it and a roll-tool of wild strawberries along the joint, spine divided into six panels with the label missing from the second panel and the other panels tooled in gilt (upper board chipped, edges rubbed and corners bumped). London: for A. and J. Churchill, 1695 £1500 Wing L2762 (+;+). Pforzheimer 612. Two editions of Some Thoughts Concerning Education appeared in rapid succession in 1695. The order of the editions is still not fully established, and Wing suggests that the present edition, which it conveniently identifies by the correct spelling “patronage” on A3v l.19, is the first. However, the contrary argument is convincingly stated by Jean Yolton in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol.75 (1981), pp.315-321. The present edition, with the catchwords “I” on A2v and the other seven points listed by Yolton, has many errors found in the edition with “I my” corrected. Furthermore the revised “I” edition was used for the third (further improved) edition of 1695 so it is more likely to be the second printing. Some Thoughts Concerning Education began as a series of letters written by Locke in 1684 to his friend Edward Clarke, giving advise on the upbringing of his children. The thoughts were completed by March 1690, but it was not until July 1693 that Locke was convinced by William Molyneux to publish them. It rapidly became one of his most popular and influential works. Provenance: Rev. John Phelips (d. 1766, aged 39), Vicar of Yeovil 1756-66, of Newton Surmaville, Yeovil, Somerset; 2nd son of Edward Phelips, of Montacute House, Somerset, with his name in gilt on the front cover. The remains of the family library at Newton Surmaville was finally sold at auction in 2007, but this, and other volumes in our previous Stevens-Cox catalogues, was sold several decades ago.

[260] LOCKE (John). Some Thoughts concerning Education. “Third Edition Enlarged”. 8vo., [8], 374, [2] pp. Small piece torn away from the blank lower edge of E4, G2 and the lower edge of Z2. Some light staining to the lower section of L2-3, small tear at the foot of X1 (touching the catchword on the verso), endleaves browned. Contemporary sprinkled calf; covers with the Phelips family crest of a gilt brazier, spine tooled in gilt (spine rubbed and with the label missing, corners bumped, joints split and headcaps missing). London: for A. and J. Churchill, 1695 £750 118 MAGGS BROS LTD

Wing L2763 (+;+). The first edition of 1693 sold quickly and a reprint was issued in the same year. This third edition contains “a substantial quantity of new material” (ODNB). Provenance: Rev. John Phelips (d. 1766, aged 39), Vicar of Yeovil 1756-66, of Newton Surmaville, Yeovil, Somerset; 2nd son of Edward Phelips, of Montacute House, Somerset, with the family crest on the covers and his ownership inscription “J. Phelipps student Xt. Ch. Oxon 1746”. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 9 June 1743 aged 17, B.A. 1747, M.A. 1750. The same gilt brazier crest is found on many of the Phelips family books at Montacute House [National Trust]. The remains of the family library at Newton Surmaville were finally sold at auction in 2007, but this copy, along with other volumes that appeared in our previous Stevens-Cox catalogues, was sold several decades ago.

[261] [LOCKE (John). Two Treatises of Government: in the former, the false Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and his Followers, are Detected and Overthrown. The latter is an Essay concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government. The Second Edition Corrected. Second Edition. 8vo., [8], 358, [2] pp. Worming partly through the text to leaves A1-O1 (most severely between A-C and F-H), rust spotting to B6-B8, D2, E1-2 and X3, Large (65mm) piece torn away from fore-margin of D3, smaller piece torn from D5, closed tear to M1, title-page M2 and corner of M3, closed tear (touching text) to Z3, and with the book block beginning to detach from the binding. Contemporary sheep (front cover detached, lower joints split, rubbed and worn). London: for Awnsham and John Churchill,1694 £350 Wing L2767 (+;+). Attig, Locke, no. 101. Yolton, Locke, no. 30. With a number of cancelled leaves (compare the list in Yolton). “The text is that of the first edition; some passages were rewritten, especially sections 105 and 106 in the first treatise, and in sections 50 and 83 of the second. It had over 150 alterations of sense or extensions, but the final text was worse than ever, so bad Locke felt like abandoning the whole book.” (Laslett, p. 9).

[262] LONDON. Remarks upon Remarques: or, a Vindication of the Conversations of the Town, in another Letter directed to the same Sir T.L. First Edition. 8vo,. [16], 126, [2] pp., without the first but with the final blank leaf. Small tear to the corner of G4 with slight loss to six words otherwise a good, fresh, copy. Contemporary sheep, ruled in blind, with the date 1673 stamped in blind on the turn- in of the front cover [see below] (corners, edges and spine lightly bumped at head and tail and with a small hole near the foot). London: by A.C. for William Hensman, 1673. £1500 Wing R945 (British Library, Bodley, St John’s Cambridge, Trinity Cambridge in UK; + in USA). The present work is a reply to Remarques on the Humours and Conversations of the Town (1673) which warned naive country gentlemen about the dangers of London and argued that nobility of character is best formed when there is no exposure to vice and corruption. Remarks upon Remarques takes a more sophisticated tack and is really more of a courtesy book. The narrator is a native Londoner who takes an inexperienced country gentleman on a walking tour of London. The work argues that a hero is not formed by “an innocent, ignorant country life” (16) but rather in an immersion in the “affairs and interests of men” (23). There is a description of Thomas Shadwell’s play Epsom Wells prior to its publication: “I advise you, sir, to send up to London, for a copy of it, for ’tis not yet printed ... there is an ingenious Gentleman, by name Mr. Shadwell, who may help you to it ... for the play is a thing of great ingenuity” (101). The binding of this copy is highly unusual. It is dated 1673 on the turn-in of the front cover. The date is blind-stamped beneath what appears to be an initial “G” or a crown. We have not been able to find any trace of a similar practice among English bookbinders of the period and it is not mentioned in Stuart Bennett’s Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles 1660-1800. It may be a tanner’s mark or excise stamp.

[263] LONDON. A True and Faithful account of the several Informations exhibited to the Honourable Committee appointed by the Parliament to Inquire into the late Dreadful Burning of the City of London. Together with Informations touching the Insolency of Popish Priests and Jesuites; and the Increase of Popery, brought to the Honourable Committee appointed by the Parliament for that purpose. Small 4to., 35, [1] pp. Browned and lightly spotted throughout. Disbound, nasty remains of a later glued binding. MAGGS BROS LTD 119

[London:] in the Year 1667 £120 Wing T2470 (+;+), variant “B” with the “B” of signature B1 under the “w” of “which” and line 13 of the title ends “touching the”.

[264] LONDON. Trap ad Crucem; or, the Papists Watch-word. Being an Impartial Account of some late Informations taken before several of His Majesties Justices of the Peace in and about the City of London. Also a Relation of the several fires that of late have hapened in and about the said City. First Edition. Small 4to., 24 pp. Title-page ink blotted, light damp staining to the fore-margins and with the verso of the final leaf a little dusty. Disbound, with the remains of a nasty glued spine. London: in the Year, 1670 £120 Wing T2029 (+ in UK; Boston Public Library, Folger, Huntington, Library of Congress & Yale in USA). A collection of accounts - by various London residents - of several unexplained fires in 1670 which were blamed on foreign subversives.

[265] LOVE (Richard). The Watchmans Watchword. A Sermon preached at White-Hall upon the 30 of March last, being the fifth Wednesday in Lent, and the day of the monethly fast: By D.D. Master of Corpus Christi Colledge in Cambridge, and chaplain in ordinary to his Majestie. First Edition. Small 4to. [4], 41pp. Small rust spot to *1-*2, damp stain to lower fore-corner of D-F and with various early pen trials to prelims and inside covers. Contemporary Cambridge limp vellum, covers ruled in gilt, fleur-de-lis in the corners and centre (vellum badly soiled, stained on rear cover). [Cambridge]: by Roger Daniel printer to the University of Cambridge, 1642 £220 Wing L3193 (+;+). Love “preached a sermon at Whitehall to parliament at the monthly fast on 30 March 1642, “The watchman’s watchword”, in which he criticized the threats both from Laudianism and from radical protestants’ attacks on church hierarchy, and appealed for the promotion of preaching. It was subsequently published by royal command at Cambridge with the aim of attracting religious moderates to Charles’s side.” - ODNB. The “extraordinary” (ODNB) Richard Love was able to remain in good favour through the Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration. Love was Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge for the majority of life, and was the only head of college to be retained after the Civil War and even retained his place after the Restoration though he died in February 1661. Provenance: 1: Daniel Bentley, later 17th-century signature on the flyleaf. 2: Anonymous sale, Sotheby, 11/2/1942, lot 635, £1/11/- to “Corvinus”. JSC’s “Cx” cipher and pencil purchase note “Sotheby’s 1942 Jan 35/-”.

THE LOVEDAY COPY OF A LOVEDAY BOOK [266] LOVEDAY (Robert). Loveday’s Letters, domestick and foreign; to several Persons: Occasionally distributed in Subjects Philosophical, Historical and Moral. The Seventh Impression. 8vo., [14], 272, [14 (advertisements] pp, engraved portrait by William Faithorne. Small rust spots on A2 and R1 and with the flyleaves stained by the turn-ins. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, gilt spine (covers detached). London: by J. Rawlins for Obadiah Blagrave, 1684 £350 Wing L3230 (+;+). Edited by the author’s brother Anthony to whom many of the letters are addressed. Robert Loveday is noted on the title-page as the translator of La Calprenède’s Cléopâtre. Provenance: Rev. Thomas Loveday, rector of East Ilsley, Berksire, with bookplate and inscription “Robert Philip Tyrwhitt to his kinsman The Revd Thomas Loveday 1839”. Thomas Tudor Loveday (d. 1991), of Guernsey, with bookplate. 120 MAGGS BROS LTD

[267] [LOWNDES (William)]. A Report containing an Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coins. First Edition. 8vo., 159, [1] pp. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, gilt spine (upper headcap missing, joints split at the head, slightly rubbed). London: by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas’d, 1695 £450 Wing L3323 (+;+). William Lowndes was appointed Secretary to the Treasury in 1695, and in this official report he proposed the degradation of the silver coinage by 25%. On the final page is an invitation for others to communicate their opinions on the matter. John Locke was amongst those to respond, and his Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money demolished Lowndes’ case. Provenance: From the library at Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire, with characteristic ink shelfmark “T no-2”, the seat of William Blathwayt (1649?-1717), M.P. for Newtown, Isle of Wight 1685-87 and Bath 1693-1710, he was Secretary-at-War from 1683-1704, Clerk of the Privy Council from 1686 and a Commissioner of Trade and Plantations 1696-1706. JSC had three copies of this book from Dyrham, one of which has been repurchased by the National Trust for the library there. Another copy in similar condition and binding with the shelfmark “T no-3” in similar condition is also for sale.

[268] [Another copy]. Small hole in the blank fore-margin of D1, and a closed tear to the upper margin of F2-F3 (not touching text). Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, with six panel gilt spine and original paper label (headcaps missing, corners bumped and slightly rubbed). London: Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas’d, 1695 £400 Wing L3323 (+,+) Provenance: Another copy from the library at Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire, with characteristic ink shelfmark “T no-3” to the front pastedown.

[269] LUCRETIUS CARUS (Titus). EVELYN (John), translator. An Essay on the first book of T. Lucretius Carus De Rerum Natura. Interpreted and made English verse by J. Evelyn Esq. First Edition in English. 8vo., [16], 80, 97-185, [7] pp., frontispiece designed by Mary Evelyn and etched by Wenceslaus Hollar (shaved at the fore-edge). Light damp staining to a few lower margins and corners, and the fore-margin of L7-8 and M6-8; A4v-5r dust-soiled, very small hole in A4, and with some minor rust spotting to D4. Contemporary calf, gilt spine, red morocco label (corners very lightly bumped, rubbed and worn, several score marks on the front cover; label damaged, pastedowns unstuck). MAGGS BROS LTD 121

London: Gabriel Bedle [Bedell] and Thomas Collins, 1656 £2000 Wing L3446 (+;+). Keynes, Evelyn, 4. Evelyn was so disappointed with the numerous printer’s errors (for some reason he did not see it through the press himself) that his translation of Books II-VI remained unpublished: “Never was a book so abominably misused by printer, never copy so negligently surveid by one who undertooke to looke over the proofes with all exactness & care, namely Dr Triplet, well known for his abilitie, & who pretended to oblige me in my absense, & so readily offer’d himselfe. This good yet I receiv’d by it, that publishing it vainely its ill successe at the printers discourag’d me from troubling the world with the rest.” (written in his own copy and printed by Keynes, p. 42). Provenance: From the library at Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire, with characteristic ink shelfmark “e / no-1” on the front flyleaf, the seat of William Blathwayt (1649?-1717), M.P. for Newtown, Isle of Wight 1685-87 and Bath 1693-1710, he was Secretary-at-War from 1683-1704, Clerk of the Privy Council from 1686 and a Commissioner of Trade and Plantations 1696-1706. Name “Slimbridge” in ink in a contemporary hand longitudinally on the last blank page - Slimbridge is a famous wetlands in Gloucestershire. “[18 June 1687] I din’d this day at Mr. Blathwaites (two miles from Hampton); the Gent: is Secretary of Warr, Cl: of the Counsel &c having raised himselfe by his Industry, from very moderate Circumstances: He is a very proper handsome person, and very dextrous in buisinesse, and has besids all this married a very great fortune [Mary Wynter, of Dyrham], his incomes [alone] by the Army, & his being Cl: of the Counsel, & Secretary to the Committee of Foraine Plantations brings him in above 2000 pounds per Annum:” - John Evelyn, Diary, ed. E.S. De Beer (1955), IV, p. 554-5.

[270] LUCRETIUS CARUS (Titus). CREECH (Thomas), translator. T. Lucretius Carus. The Epicurean philosopher, his Six Books De Natura Rerum done into English Verse with Notes. Second Edition, corrected and enlarged, of this translation. 8vo., [44], 223, [1], 59, [1] pp., engraved portrait of Lucretius by Burghers after Creech. Recto of portrait lightly stained by the turn-ins, title-page a bit creased by the bookplate on the verso, light marginal browning, some heavy ink spotting and some soiling to (e)1-4 of the notes at the end which seems to have occurred when still in sheets. Contemporary calf; gilt spine and red morocco label (old repairs to joints, two small worm holes at the foot of the spine, upper cover slightly scuffed, front flyleaf loose). Oxford: by L. Lichfield for Anthony Stephens, 1683 £220 Wing L3448 (+,+). The translation which established Creech as a philosopher and poet. His effort in heroic couplets (first published in the previous year) was the first “almost complete translation” (ODNB) of Lucretius into English. Provenance: 1: Thomas Foley (1673-1733), of Great Witley Court, Worcester, politician, 18th-century armorial bookplate on the verso of the title. 2: George Frederick Abbott (1874-1947), travel writer and historian, with bookplate.

FROM LIBRARY OF THE “RADICAL” FRANCIS PLACE [271] MACHIAVELLI (Niccolo). DACRES (Edward), translator. Machivael’s Discourses upon the first decade of T. Livius, translated out of the Italian. To which is added His Prince. With some Marginal Animadversions Noting and Taxing his Errors. By E. D. First Collected Edition. 12mo., [28], 499, [1]; [8], 168, [4] pp. margins browned throughout, some more general light browning and occasional spots/stains, small hole to the inner margin of B1 (touching text on recto) and some marginal damage from a paper flaw to foot of B5, closed tear to margin of S4, Q2 shaved at the fore-edge with slight loss to the sidenote. Early 19th- century diced russia, covers with a narrow gilt floral roll border (rebacked, corners worn). London: printed for G. Bedell and T. Collins, 1663 £4500 122 MAGGS BROS LTD

Wing M134Aa (National Trust [Belton House] only in UK; Harvard & Yale in USA) of this issue. ESTC records three issues for different booksellers - Daniel Pakeman, Thomas Dring and Bedell & Collins. The Pakeman issue is the most common. Dacres’ translation of the Discourses was first published in 1636 and his translation of The Prince and The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca in 1640 making this the second edition in English of The Prince and the first collected edition of these works. The title to The Prince is dated 1661 but the register is continuous. Provenance: Francis Place (1771-1854), “radical and chronicler”, with his label (most of an 1818 watermark is visible and it is laid on orange glazed paper) recording his address at 16 Charing Cross where had set up business, as a tailor, after 1799. Place’s interest in politics was ignited by his reading of Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason which prompted him to join the radical London Corresponding Society. ODNB records that as Place’s business flourished he was afforded more time in which to read and reflect on everyday politics and he soon became renowned for his political advice. Place was famously well-read and even made over part of his Charing Cross house into a library where fellow reformers could borrow books. He was a great political organiser whose knowledge of Westminster politics ensured that his 1807 candidate, Sir Francis Burdett, was elected to a seat in parliament. Although his radicalism waned in his later years he continued to be a strong vocal presence in Westminster politics until his death in 1854. The extensive collections of his papers, mostly in the British Library, are one of the great sources for political historians of the early 19th century.

AN EARLY SCOTTISH PROVENANCE AND MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL [272] MACKENZIE (Sir George). Observations upon the Laws and Customs of Nations, as to Precedency. First Edition. Folio., [18], 92, 89-92 pp., engraved portrait of the author by Vandrebanc. Lightly browned, margins dusty Final leaf a little stained and with some occasional stains throughout (particulaly U1-2). Early 20th-century calf, marbled endleaves (lower edge of front and back covers water stained). Edinburgh: by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, 1680 £1500 Wing M186 (+;+). [Bound with]: MACKENZIE. (Sir George). The Science of Herauldry, treated as part of the , and Law of Nations: wherein Reasons are given for its Principles, and Etymologies for its harder Terms. Edinburgh: by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, 1680. First Edition.[8], 98 [i.e. 102], [6] pp., thirty engraved plates. Lower margins increasingly dampstained and with some small taped repa irs to X2-Y1. Wing M204 (+;+). [Bound with:] A 3pp. manuscript copy of “An Act By his Royall highnes his Maties high Comissioners and Lords of Privay Counsell establishing ye order of ye rydeing of ye ensewing parlia[men]t and severall circumstau[n]ces relating yrto conformeth to ye ancient custome of ye Kingdome of Scotland [...] ye 28 of July 1681.” Signed at the end “Wm Patersone”. The order of the procession to the Parliament at Edinburgh attended by James, Duke of York on 28 July 1681. The text was also printed (Wing O383). Provenance: 1: Robert Ker, 4th Baron Jedburgh (d. 1692), with flamboyant signature “Jedbrugh” at the foot of the title, a manuscript note on the front flyleaf “The Roll of the Nobility in this booke is wronge both as to me & others wch ye authour has acknowledged to me & layes the blame on the Lyons clark & promises to cause it to be rectifie & declare it wrong in the errata wch will be find so in other coppies. Jedbrugh”. This is followed by a 2-page note in his hand MAGGS BROS LTD 123

of “The way & order of the funerall of the Duk of Rothesa[y] Lord Chanclor of Scotland at Edbr the 23 of Augt 1681 from St Gillis to the Abbay”. Also loosely inserted is an original autograph letter to Jedburgh, signed “Home”, probably the Earl of Home, forwarding Mackenzie’s apologies for this error: “Edr [Edinburgh] Decemr 20. 1680. My Lord, This morning I received your L[ordshi]p’s: with the two Inclosed, thay for my Lord Advocate [i.e. the author, Sir George Mackenzie] I delivered immediately after I received it, the other for my Lord Lothian I shall deliver this day if he be in towne. My Lord Advocate desired me to acquaint your Lordship of the wrong he had done you which he positively promises to help to your Lo[rdshi]p’s satisfaction. He lays the blame upon the Lyon Clerk. He promises further to write an answer to your Lo[rdshi]p of yours to him, as soon as he can have leisure & declares that your Lo[rdshi]p is the person in all the world he would least have wronged & would take most pains to please. I have nothing else to add at present. I am My Lord your L[ordshi]p’s most obliged & most huumble servant Home”. Jedburgh has duly altered the list of Scottish peers on p. 51, arranged by order of precedence, placing himself 22nd in the list of Lords as opposed to second-last as printed. Jedburgh’s cousin and successor as 5th Baron, William Kerr, became 2nd Marquess of Lothian on his father’s death in 1703. 2: Ink signature/place name “Stoneridge 1790”. 3: A few later ink notes in The Sciene of Heraldry. 4: John Hoad, with a letter from the Earl of Home, from The Hirsel, dated “Nov 9, 1865” to Hoad - “My Dear Mr Hoad, I return the Precious Book. - Lord Lothian had it some time in his possession. ...”. 5: Walter Harold Wilkin, military historian, with early 20th-century bookplate.

[273] MALVEZZI (Virgilio, Marchese). GENTILIS (Robert), translator. The Chiefe Events of the Monarchie of Spaine, in the yeare 1639. Written by the Marquesse Virgilio Malvezzi, one of his Majesties Councell of Warre. Translated out of th’ Italian Copy, by Robert Gentilis Gent. First Edition in English. 12mo., [8], 208 pp. Lightly browned throughout, first few leaves dusty, occasional damp staining to the fore-margin (notably A4, F4-F9), paper flaw in leaf D5 (touching text on six lines), and with a small piece missing from lower corner of E2 (touching catchword). Mid-20th-century calf, gilt spine. London: by T.W. for Humphrey Moseley, 1647 £200 Wing M355 (+;+). The translator Robert Gentilis (1590-c.1655) was the son of Alberico Gentili (1552-1608), the exiled Italian jurist and Regius Professor of Civil law at Oxford. After “precocious academic beginnings”, Robert left All Souls’ College, Oxford “went abroad, and disappeared for twenty-five years” (ODNB). He was back in London by 1638, when he remarried, and spent the rest of his careeer as a professional translator. Provenance: “W[illia]m Fullarton”, early signature on recto of the title.

[274] MANLOVE (Edward, of Ashbourne). Divine Contentment: or a Medicine for a Discontented Man: and a Confession of Faith: and other Poems upon several Subjects. First Edition. 8vo., 112pp., lacking the imprimatur leaf. Heavy foxing and staining to leaves C1-D1, E1-F1, and G1-H1, short marginal tear in A4, 40mm closed tear to centre of D6. Contemporary sheep (front cover detached, lower joint rubbed and cracked, corners bumped. Early 19th-century green paper pastedowns, no front flyleaf). London: for Richard Mills, 1667 £550 Wing M452 (British Library, Bodley, Derby Central Library in UK; Folger, Harvard & Yale in USA). Edward Manlove (1615-71), was a Derbyshire lawyer and lead-mining entrepeneur. His collection of poems has been dismissed: “although revealing [his] godliness [they] have little poetic value” (ODNB). A parliamentarian and a presbyterian, he includes a final section (with a separate title-page) entitled “Poems Against Popery” which condemns various Catholic doctrines including preaching “in an unknown tongue”, , purgatory, image worship, etc. Provenance: 1: An early ink note on the verso of the title to part 2 (D6r) reads: “thou art my helper and my Defender”. 2: “Edward Dalton Esqre, LL.D.” (1787- 1877), of Dunkirk House, Nailesworth, Gloucestershire, with letterpress label, and ?his pencil purchase note at the end “pret o/h Deptford 1830”.

[275] MANWOOD (John). COX (Nicholas), editor. An Abridgment of Manwood’s Forrest Laws. And all the Acts of Parliament made since; which relate to Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, or Fowling. 8vo., [2], 101, [1] pp. Lightly spotted throughout (particularly gathering 3g), margins lightly soiled and with occasionally folded and bumped corners. Early 20th-century roan, covers panelled in blind (joints and headcaps rubbed). 124 MAGGS BROS LTD

London: for Nath. Rolls, 1696 £140 In fact an extract from the “fourth edition” of Cox’s The Gentlemen’s Recreation (1697; Wing C6707), although it has a separate Wing number (M553) and ESTC states that it may have been published separately.

[276] MARIUS (John). Advice Concerning Bills of Exchange. Wherein is set forth the Nature of Exchange of Monies, several forms of Bills of Exchange in different Languages, manner of proceeding in Protest, Countermand, Security, Letters of Credit, Assignment; and generally the whole practical part and body of Exchanges Anatomized. With two exact Tables of New Stile and Old Stile. By John Marius Public Notary. The Third Edition, very much enlarged and corrected by the Author. The like never published by any. Third Edition. 8vo. [16], 161, [13] pp., large number of binder’s blank leaves at the end. Signature deleted from the upper margin of the title-page, light damp staining to the margins of D3-D8,G-H and M1-M7, some occasional uncut edges, minor printing error on F1 affecting three lines of text, final binder’s blanks, flyleaf and rear pastedown stained. Contemporary calf, remains of two metal clasps but with the catches missing (corners missing and with a small hole in the spine). London: for Robert Horne, 1674 £850 Wing M606 (Christ Church Oxford, Goldsmiths’ Library, Gray’s Inn Library, National Library of Scotland [Advocates’ Library], Trinity College Dublin in UK & Ireland; Columbia, Folger, Harvard, Library of Congress, Princeton, Rutgers in USA). The book is split into short sections detailing the correct mode of transaction in numerous business exchanges. The first section provides currency conversion for trading with merchants on the Continent and the general ground-rules relating to bills. Later sections include template bills of exchange and, advice on recouping payment and dealing with problematic merchants. Marius states “A bill of exchange, though written in few words, and contained in a small piece of paper, yet is of great weight and concernment in point between Merchant and Merchant” (K5v). Several editions were published in the 17th century from 1651 (British Library only) and 1670 (4 in UK & Ireland; Huntington & Illinois) with one later edition (Dublin, 1794). Provenance: 1: Deleted signature at the head of the title. 2: Anthony Carroll, with signature “Antho: Carroll” on the title; given to: 3: Phineas Riall (1659-1709), of Clonmel, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, inscribed opposite the title: “Phin: Riall’s booke given by Mr Anthony Carroll the 3rd of Aprill anno Do. 1700”. 4: John Bagwell, with signature dated April 23 1714 (Riall’s son William Vaughan Riall married Mary Bagwell, daughter of John Bagwell) and two versions of “Thomas Bagwells book” at the end. 5: Benjamin Grubb (1728-1802), merchant, of Clonmel, numerous signatures and notes on the flyleaves and title-page; a later list of the Grubb family has been inscribed on one of the blanks providing the family history from Ishmael Grubb (1594-1676) through to John (1816-1870) and his children Joseph Ernest and Louis. The majority of Grubb’s signatures are signed 1760. Several other signatures appear throughout: William Greene (1704) and John Taylor (undated). The front pastedown is covered in early shorthand with the title “Observations on Gardening 1704”). A note in a late 19th/early 20th-century hand states “Anthony Carroll (grand son of Anthony Carroll donor of this book) was one of the signatories to the Amer[ican] Declaration of Independence”.

[277] [MARLOW (John), apothecary]. Letters to a Sick Friend, containing such Observations as may render the Use of Remedies effectual towards the Removal of Sickness, and Preservation of Health. By J.M. First Edition, probably (extended) third issue. 8vo., [8], 250 pp., with the first blank leaf, leaf O7 (blank) cancelled. Sheets N and O closely trimmed along the lower margin. Contemporary calf, covers with a small flower tool in each corner (joints rubbed and slightly cracked, corners and fore-edge of the lower cover worn). London: by J. A[stwood]. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1682 £1500 Wing M691A (British Library [160pp], Bodley [160pp], Cambridge [160pp], Carlisle Cathedral [issue unknown], Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh [160pp], Dr. Williams’s Library [160pp] and Wellcome Institute [160pp]; Selwyn College, Dunedin, NZ [263pp] UC-Los Angeles [250pp], College of Physicians Philadelphia [250pp; John Locke’s copy, “ex dono authoris”]; US National Library of Medicine [250pp], Yale Medical [250pp]). Three or four issues are known, all dated 1682. The first has 28 Letters and ends on L8 (p. 160). A probable second issue (but we are unable to locate any copies) has the final two leaves L7&8 (pp. 157-60) cancelled and two extra sheets added M-O8 (pp. 157-202), ending with Letter XXXV followed by a blank leaf (O8) and including extended texts of letters XXVII (5pp) & XXVIII (5.5pp) instead of (3 & 1pp). Letter XXVII cautions against over- of spa-waters at Dulwich Wells (“It is a madness to think, as many do, to cure excessive drinking of Wine, by excessive drinking of Water”) whereas in the first issue the author MAGGS BROS LTD 125

refers to Epsom Wells and Letter XXVIII cautions against over-sleeping (“By lying long in Bed, and dozing, you hinder the expulsive Faculty from throwing off those Evacuations, which Nature would disburthen it self of, were you up and moving about”). In this (probably third) issue L7&8 have also been cancelled and sheets M-R8 (pp. 157-250, ending with “FINIS”) have been added with leaf O8 (blank) between pp. 202 & 203 cancelled. Four other copies are recorded - none in the UK. A final issue with one more sheet added ending on p. 263 (S8v) with “FINIS” is recorded in one copy only at Selwyn College, Dunedin, New Zealand (see: David G. Esplin, Query 132. J.M. “Letters to a Sick Friend. 1682” in The Book Collector (1960), pp. 456/7). The Dunedin copy has an early manuscript note: “Some Copies have but 160 Page Some 202, & 250. This has 263 & ye only one I have met with; wch I wd not be without for 5d”. The recipient “T.C” (who signs the publisher’s epistle to the reader) tells how gratefully he received the letters from his friend in London whilst he was ill in the country. The apparent sagacity of the advice found in the epistles led to T.C.’s decision to publish them for the benefit of all those who are ill. The added chapters discuss matters such as wine, coffeee, purges, diet, hot baths, meat eating and “spoon-meals” (soups). Provenance: 1: Numerous old marginal markings, underlinings, ticks and crosses in blue pencil. 2: 19th-century inscription “A. J. Waterman. Redland, Bristol” on the flyleaf.

[278] MARTEN (Henry). A Word to Mr. Wil. Prynn Esq; and two for the Parliament and Army. Reproving the one, and justifying the other in their late proceedings. Presented to the consideration of the Readers of Mr. William Prynns last Books. First Edition. Small 4to., 16 pp. Residue from an older binding along the inner edge of the title-page, browned throughout, large printed tract number pasted on the title-page and a duplicate stamp from the British Museum on the verso of the title. Disbound and preserved loosely in a paper wrapper. London: for T. Brewster, 1649 £300 Wing M825 (+;+). A scathing attack on William Prynne; on his works in general (“then as they are now, stuft with non-sence, railing, improper Instances misunderstood, and mis- applyed Authorities”, 3), his natural opposition to any power, whether royal or parliamentarian (“should the Apostles come from Heaven, sent thence to institute a Government, Mr. Prynne would dissent from, and wrangle with them”, 5) and his habit on turning on those who have helped him; and in particular on a recent broadside attacking Colonel Pride’s Purge of Parliament on 6 December 1648 - A Declaration and Protestation of Will Prynn and Cle: Walker, Esquires, Members of the House of Commons, against the Generall, and Generall Councell of the Army, and their faction now remaining, and sitting in the House - in which Prynne along with all but a Rump of 83 MPs were barred from the House of Commons in what was, in effect, a miliary coup that cleared the way for the trial and execution of Charles I which took place three weeks after George Thomason dated his copy of this tract (Jan 6 1648/9). Provenance: British Museum, duplicate stamp dated 1787 (sale 6 March 1788, 19 days, 4813 lots, the second, “largest and most diastrous”, duplicate sale) on the blank verso of the title-page, an ink note by a BM librarian reading “Dup” followed by a reference to the manuscript catalogue of the Thomason Tracts in the upper fore-corner of the title-page but this has been covered by a printed label “No. 21” (in red).

[279] MARTIALIS (Marcus Valerius). FLETCHER (Robert), translator. Ex Otio Negotium. Or, Martiall his Epigrams Translated. With Sundry Poems and Fancies. First Edition. 8vo., [8], 259, [1] pp., engraved portrait by Robert Vaughan (cut slightly close at the fore-edge). Browned and spotted throughout, small hole from a paper flaw in L1 and N1 (no loss). Early 19th-century calf, smooth spine, ruled in gilt (slightly rubbed, small patch on surface, insect damage at the foot of the front cover, small piece torn from the corner of the front flyleaf). London: by T. Mabb, for William Shears,1656 £400 Wing M831 (+;+). Martial’s epigrams are followed by a number of “overlooked doggerel verses” (pp. 129-259), including three on the death of , by the “frustratingly elusive” (McRae) Robert Fletcher. See Adriana McCrea, “Reason’s Muse: Andrew Marvell, R. Fletcher and the politics of poetry in the Engagement debate”, in Albion (Winter, 1991), pp. 655-80, for a discussion of three pro-Commonwealth poems by Fletcher published in 1651 but not reprinted in this collection. The epigrams are prefaced by a satirical poem, “Momus Elencticus” attacking , the republican chancellor of Oxford University. The poem has been attributed to Thomas Ireland. Fletcher’s poems were not reprinted until 1970 (ed. D. H. Woodward). Provenance: “T:W:” [?Thomas Willughby (d. 1729), son of the naturalist Francis Willughby (1635-1672)], early ink initials on the title. 126 MAGGS BROS LTD

[280] MARTIALIS (Marcus Valerius). [KILLIGREW (Henry), translator]. Epigrams of Martial, Englished. With some other Pieces, Ancient and Modern. Second Edition. 8vo., [16], 96, 93-316 pp., etched frontispiece of two satyrs with a mirror (slightly worn impression). Title-page very lightly soiled, a small stain to centre of C1. Contemporary sprinkled calf, covers panelled in blind, remains of paper label in second panel of the spine (upper joint cracked, lower joint cracked at the head). London: for Henry Bonwicke, 1695 £800 Wing M830 (+;+). Henry Killigrew (1613-1700) was a brother of the dramatists Sir William and Thomas Killigrew. A Church of England clergyman, he was chaplain and a close adviser to James II and Master of The Savoy. His anonymous translation of Martial was first published as Select Epigrams of Martial in 1689 (Wing M833). This edition has 19pp of additional poems, some translations of other poets, some original, at the end. [Issued with:] Killigrew (Henry). A Book of New Epigrams by the same Hand that Translated Martial. [- Part II.]. First Edition. [6 (two leaves of poems by N[ahum]. Tate and S.P. have been bound at the beginning of the previous work], 158 (p. 158 misnumbered “15”), [2 (advertisements)], 104 pp. London: for Henry Bonwicke, 1695. Wing K443 (+,+). ESTC records five copies with both works bound together. Provenance: Contemporary signature “JWiddrington” on the flyleaf and a list of nine books on the verso by “Authentick authors concerning the alteration of Religion since Henry the 7th to this time”

[281] MARTIN (Martin). A Late Voyage to St. Kilda, the Remotest of all the Hebrides, or Western Isles of Scotland. With a History of the Island, Natural, Moral, and Topographical. Wherein is an Account of their Customs, Religion, Fish, Fowl, &c. As also a Relation of a late Impostor there, pretended to be sent by St. John Baptist. First Edition. 8vo., [14], 158, [2] pp., folding engraved map of St. Kilda and an engraved plate of two birds. Foxed and stained throughout, very small closed tear to D3, small piece torn away from the blank corner of E3 and with a small hole through the fore-margin of E4. Contemporary sprinkled sheep (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves). London: D. Brown and T. Godwin,1698 £400 Wing M847 (+;+).

[282] [MARVELL (Andrew), formerly attributed to]. A Seasonable Argument to Perswade all the Grand Juries in England, to Petition for a New Parliament. Or, A List of the Principal Labourers in the Great Desgn of Popery and Arbitrary Power; who have Betrayed their Country to the Conspirators, and Bargain’d with them to Maintain a Standing Army in England, under the Command of the Bigotted Popish D. Who by assistance of the L.L’s Scotch army, the forces in Ireland, and those in France, hopes to bring all back to Rome. First Edition. Small 4to., 23, [1] pp. Upper edges of title-page (A1) and text leaves E1, F1 closely shaved (just touching the ruled border to the title pagination), E4-F2 uncut. Mid-20th-century red calf by Riviere & Son. “Amsterdam” [i.e. London]: Printed in the Year, 1677 £850 Wing M885 (+;+). Formerly attributed to Andrew Marvell (and still is by Wing and ESTC) and his associate John Ayloffe but not included in A. F. Allison’s bibliography in Four Metaphysical Poets (1973). A libellous list of sympathisers with the Duke of York arranged by county and exposing their corruptions, e.g. “Samuel Pepys Esquire, once a Taylour, then serving man to the Lord Sandwich, now Secretary to the Admirally [sic], got by Passes and other illigal [sic] wayes 40000l.” On 6 April 1678 the Privy Council issued a “Warrant to Ralph Carter or any other of the messengers to search for a scandalous and seditious pamphlet entituled A seasonable argument to all grand juries, and for the author, printer or dispersers, and to take them into custody and bring them before Williamson, with any copies of the pamphlet, to answer the objections against them” (CSPD Chas II, Entry Book 334, p. 475). On 18 April 1678: “Information of Humphrey Elmes that Jones, a bookseller in Little Britain, had told him the previous Tuesday that he and a friend (whom Elmes had met though he did not know his name) had been at a printer’s in Moorfields to find out the printer of a late scandalous pamphlet, ... and had met with the printer he suspected, but not in the place where he had lived before; Jones certainly believed that the printer was guilty, but had refused to tell his name, adding that if he had had a warrant he should have MAGGS BROS LTD 127

discovered the press and have taken the man. According to Jones, this printer was as dangerous a man as any in the City, and used to print unlicensed books.” (CSPD Chas II, v. 403, n. 52) as printed in D. F. McKenzie and Maureen Bell, A Chronology and calendar of documents relating to the London book trade 1641-1700 (2005), II, p. 189/91. Provenance: 1: Contemporary ink note “26: June [?]78: 244: 5: 10:” at the foot of B4v: 2: JSC’s bookplate on the front pastedown and pencil inscription on the title-page stating “By Andrew Marvell”.

[283] MASCALL (Leonard). The Government of Cattell. Divided into three Books. The first entreating of Oxen, Kine, and Calves: and how to use Bulls and other Cattell to the yoke or fell. The second discoursing of the Government of Horses, with approved Medicines against most Diseases. The third discoursing the Order of Sheep, Goats, Hogs, and Dogs, with true Remedies to help the Infirmities that befall any of them. Also perfect Instructions for taking of Moales, and likewise for the monthly husbanding of Grounds, and hath been already approved, and by long experience entertained amongst all sorts, especially husbandmen, who have made use thereof, to their great profit and contentment. Gathered by Leonard Mascal. Small 4to., [6], 308. [2] pp. Title with a weak area with the loss of four words and cut off-square at the fore-edge; worming at the foot (mostly marginal) to H1 and in the lower corner at the end, lightly browned and spotted (K7-8 more heavily spotted) with some light marginal dampstaining throughout; leaf P8v with loss of text on 2 lines where a printer’s slug has accidentally covered the type, large ink stain to the fore-margin of P3, stain at the head of of T6-U7 (affecting 5 lines of text). Mid-19th-century calf, covers blindstamped with a fleur-de-lis design in the central panel, comb-marbled endleaves and red edges (joints and edges rubbed). London: by Thomas Harper, for Martha Harison, 1653 £300 Wing M902 (+ in UK; Huntington, Illinois, New York State Library & Yale in USA). First published in 1587 and frequently reprinted. Provenance: Thomas Alfred Yarrow (1817-74), with armorial bookplate to the front pastedown and with an inscription of the recto of the front flyleaf “A. H. de Winton, Priory Hill House, Brecon, S. Wales”.

[284] MASCALL (Leonard). The Government of Cattel. Divided into three Books. The first, treating of Oxen, Kine, and Calves: and how to use Bulls, and other Cattel, to the yoke or fell. The second, discoursing of the Government or Horses, with approved Medicines against most Diseases. The third, discoursing the Order of Sheep, Goats, Hogs and Dogs; with true Remedies to help the Infirmities that befall any of them. [...] Small 4to., [6], 24, 27-154, 151-166, 169-307, [3] pp. Dampstaining to the margins of A2-C8, F5-L1, and P2-X1, fore-margins of C7-8 damaged by damp, book-block split at the end and sheets Z-2F detached, and with a small piece torn away from the foot of C2. Contemporary sheep (covers with long worm trails, spine and joints rubbed, corners bumped and with the fly-leaves unstuck and stained by the turn-ins). London: for John Stafford and William Gilberton,1662 £340 Wing M903 (Birmingham Central Reference Library, Thomas Plume’s Library, Rothamsted Experimental Station in UK; National Agricultural Library only in USA). Wing M903A is another edition with an engraved title-page, a folding plate of a horse, and with corrected pagination. Wing M903B is another issue of the present edition with a variant imprint with the publishers’ names reversed. Provenance: A few early annotations including a five-line recipe for “ffor ye mange on a cow or bullocke” at the end and a long recipe in a neat hand in the margin of D8 “half a pint of hempseed boyled in three pints of strong beere or Ale till one pint be consumed then give it ye cow that hath not cleaned you must bruise ye hempseed before you boyle it app[ro]ved.” 128 MAGGS BROS LTD

AN IMPORTANT VOLUME OF TRACTS [285] MATHER (Increase). A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New-England. From June 24. 1675. (when the first Englishman was Murdered by the Indians) to August 12. 1676. when Philip, alias Matacomet, the principal Author and Beginner of the War, was slain. Wherein the Grounds, Beginning, and Progress of the War, is summarily expressed. Together with a serious Exhortation to the Inhabitants of that Land. By Increase Mather, Teacher of a Church of Christ, in Boston in new England. First London Edition. Small 4to. [8], 51, [1 (blank)], 8 (postscript), with the half-title. Light browning. Contemporary mottled calf, morocco label on the spine “MISC= / ELLANIES / No XI.” (upper joint repaired, edges rubbed, covers with a few scuffs, spine panels with surface crackelure). London: for Richard Chiswell, according to the Original Copy Printed in New-England, 1676 £8500 Wing M1188 (+;+). The postscript includes a letter from General Josiah Winslow, Governor of the , dated from Marshfield, 1 May 1676. Originally published in Boston in the same year with an “Earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of that land” not reprinted here (it was superfluous for London readers). An account of King Philip’s War waged by Metacom or Metacomet, warchief of the Confederacy against the Plymouth colonists in 1675-76. After initial successes Metacom, known to the English settlers as King Philip, was killed in August 1676 and the war came to an end with some 600 colonists and 3000 Indians dead. Mather “interpreted the events of the 1675 uprising as indicators of either Puritan impiety or moral advancement. Mather blamed his fellow settlers for bringing the conflict upon the Massachusetts Colony, but he showed little doubt that victory would be realized once God had taught Massachusetts a lesson” - James D. Drake, King Philip’s War (Amherst, 1999), p 7. Bound fourth in a volume of tracts with: 1: Magna Charta, made in the Ninth Year of K. Henry the Third, and Confirmed by K. Edward the First, in the Twenty-Eighth Year of his Reign. With some Short, but necessary Observations from the L. Chief Just. Coke’s Comments upon it. Faithfully Translated for the Benefit of those that do not understand the Latine, By Edw. Cooke, of the Middle-Temple, Esq. [8], 68, [4 (contents and final blank leaf). London: by the Assignees of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for Thomas Simmons, 1680. Wing M253 (+;+). 2: [HAWLES (Sir John). The English-mans Right. A Dialogue between a Barrister at Law, and a Jury-man: Plainly setting forth, I. The Antiquity II. The excellent designed use III. The Office and just Priviledges of Juries, by the Law of England. [2], 40pp. Browned. London: for Richard Janeway, 1680. Wing H1185 (+;+). 3: WILLIAMS (John, Bishop). The History of the Powder-Treason, with a Vindication of the Proceedings, and Matters relating thereunto, from the Exceptions made against it, and more particularly of late years by the Authour of the Catholick Apologie, and Others. To which is added, a Parallel betwixt That and the present Popish Plot. [4], 20, 25-31, [1], [4], 95, [1]pp. London: by J.D. for Richard Chiswell, 1681. A reissue of Wing W2707 (+;+) & W2741 (+;+) with a cancel general title (the cancel title browned and frayed at the edges). 4: ANONYMOUS. Excommunication Excommunicated: or, legal Evidence, that the Ecclesiastical Courts have no Power to excommunicate any person whatsoever for not coming to his Parish-Church. In a Dialogue between a Doctor of both laws, and a Substantial Burgher of Taunton-Dean. 26pp. Lightly browned. London: in the Year, 1680. Wing E3847 (+;+). ESTC notes 2 editions - the other with 24pp. 5: DU MOULIN (Lewis). A Short and true Account of the Several Advances the Church of England hath made towards Rome: or, a Model of the Grounds upon which the Papists for these Hundred years have built their Hopes and Expectations, that England would ere long return to Popery. 88, [2], 99-118, [2 (blank)]pp. London: in the Year, 1680. Wing D2553 (+;+). 6: [SHEERES (Sir Henry)]. A Discourse touching Tanger: in a Letter to a Person of Quality. To which is added, The Interest of Tanger: By another Hand. 40pp (first leaf blank). Lightly browned. London: in the Year, 1680. Wing S3057 (+;+). One of three editions in the same year (the others 12mo and 8vo). 7: [L’ESTRANGE (Sir Roger)]. Citt and Bumpkin, in a Dialogue over a Pot of Ale, concerning Matters of Religion and Government. The Fourth Edition. By R. L. [- The Second part. ... The Third Edition]. [2], 38; [6], 32, [1 (advert)]pp. London: for Henry Brome, 1680. Wing L1219 (+;+) & L1223. 8: P. (E.). The Dialogue betwixt Cit and Bumpkin answered in Another betwixt Tom the Cheshire Piper and Captain Crack Brain’s [sic] Dedicated to the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Quinborough. Light browning/spotting. [12], 27, [1 (blank)]pp. London: in the Year, 1680. Wing P17 (+;+). 9: A Dialogue between Tom and Dick, over a Dish of Coffee, concerning Matters of Religion and Government. [2], 35, [1 (blank)]pp.[London:] in the Year, 1680. Wing L1235A (+;+). 10: Honest Hodge & Ralph holding a sober Discourse, in answer to a late Scandalous and Pernicious Pamphlet, called, a Dialogue between the Pope and a Phanatick concerning the Affairs in England. Written by a Person of Quality. [2], 39, [1 (blank)]pp. London: for Richard Janeway, 1680. Wing H2585 (+;+). 11: L’ESTRANGE (Sir Roger). A Short Answer to a whole litter of Libels. [2], 17, [1 (blank)pp [the last two leaves reversed]. London: by J.B. for Hen. MAGGS BROS LTD 129

Brome, 1680. Wing L1307A (+;+). 12: The Country Club. A Poem. [2], 35, [1 (blank)]pp. London: for Walter Kettilby, 1679. Wing C6525 (British Library, Bodley, Leeds only in UK; + in USA). Provenance: 1: Ink initials “J: J: 1681” and cost price “11s. 6d” on the front pastedown and a contemporary ink list of contents on one of the later front flyeaves. 2: Later 18th-century ink signature “H L Brown” on the front pastedown.

[286] MAUGER (Claude). Claudius Mauger’s French and English letters, upon all subjects, mean and sublime. Enlarged with fifty new letters, many of which are on the late great occurrences and revolutions of Europe. All much amended and refined according to the most quaint and courtly mode; wherein yet the idiom and elegancy of both tongues, are far more exactly suited then formerly [...]. Second Edition. 8vo., [14], 304 pp., lacking the advertisement leaf and the parallel French title-page. Margins a little browned throughout and with some occasional spotting, small piece torn from the blank corner of F2 (loss of page number) and the lower blank corner of T3, stain along the upper margin of L1-T3, worming to F4-Q1 (touching text in places), and with a large hole through the blank margin of the final leaf. Contemporary sheep, spine with four raised bands and a red morocco label lettered in gilt (upper headcap missing, joints split but holding, rubbed and bumped). London: Tho. Roycroft and are to be sold by Samuel Lowndes,1676 £250 Wing M1335 (British Library, Bodley, Durham,Leeds & Sheffield in UK; W.A. Clark, Folger, Huntington, Illinois, University of Illinois, & Stanford in USA; Bibliotheque Nationale in France). Expanded edition of a scarce aid to learning French by “the most popular French teacher of the time” (Lambley, 300). “In the second half of the seventeenth century we come across a band of French teachers in London, which corresponds, in importance, to that which grouped itself round Claude Holyband in the vicinity of St. Paul’s Churchyard at the same period in the sixteenth century. At its head was Claude Mauger, a native of Blois. Mauger had as long a teaching experience in London as Holyband; he arrived in about 1650, and we do not hear the last of him till the first decade of the next century” (ibid, 301). Mauger published a variety of language related books, and this work, dedicated to William Pulteney, appeared initially in 1671. The second edition includes 50 extra letters. Of the letters, perhaps the most remarkable are a series of six letters between a mistress and her lover in which they plan to surreptitiously meet in the presence of her mother ‘who observes me very nearly’ (223). Provenance: 1: Elizabeth Phelipps, signature dated 1703 to the front flyleaf and inscription “....her book wherein she ought to looke feb. 18 (1703)”. 2: Edmund Reeves (or Reves), 18th-century signature and inscriptions in the blank margins of F1 and F3, the first stating that ‘Edmund Reves is departing’ and the second that this is ‘his booke witness by me Thomas G’. 3: Thomas Gibbs, 18th-century signature on F2r. 4: Morgan Evans, 18th-century signature on F2r and inscription on V8r ‘Morgan Evans his hand and pen god save the king and all his men’. Kathleen Lamberly, The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times (Manchester: 1920).

[287] MAUGER (Claude). Claudius Mauger’s French Grammar with additions. Enriched with a new method, and all the improvements of that famous language as it now flourishes in the court of France [...] the ninth edition corrected and enlarged by the author, now professor of the languages in the court of France. Ninth Edition. 8vo., [7], 424 pp., with Mauger’s personal advertisement (A1v). A number of leaves slightly creased and bumped at the edges, large piece torn away from the corner of L3 (touching text on recto, corner of P2 and Y1 torn (not touching text), small hole and a tear to N2, and with a larger (35mm) hole to centre of N3, some minor staining in places. Contemporary sheep (four long incision marks into the front cover, lightly rubbed). London: by S. Roycroft for John Martyn, 1679 £240 Wing M1340bA (British Library, Bodley & St Cancie’s Cathedral, Kilkenny only; no copies in USA). Mauger’s popular and much re-printed manual for the mastering of the French tongue. Each page is split into two columns with the French on the left and the English on the right, the later sections use Mauger’s usual technique of providing templates of dialogues which could be adapted for personal use. 130 MAGGS BROS LTD

Provenance: 1: Thomas Carr, early signature on the front pastedown and initials ‘T:C:’. 2. ‘O.W.’, initials and the date ‘June the 25th 1699’ on the upper blank margin of A3. 3: Edward Chandler, 18th-century signature on the English title-page (A2v). 4: Richard Rufino, later 18th-century signature on the rear pastedown. Numerous other signatures, half signatures, pen trials, initials and exercises throughout the book including an exercise on the final leaf (possibly in the hand of Richard Rufino) listing number ‘1. un 2. deux 3. trois’ etc and the days of week.

[288] MAUGER (Claude). Le Tableau du Jugement Universel, avec d’autres Discours Spirituels. Le premiere Edition. First Edition. 8vo., [8], 71, [1] pp. Title shaved at the fore-edge with loss of the frame, small ink stain to top of D4 (touching text) and with two small worm holes to K4. 19th-century calf (rebacked, new endleaves). London: for T.D. and sold by Matthew Turner, 1675 £750 Wing M1351A (Royal College of Physicians [imperfect: imprint cropped and tightly rebound with some loss of text] and Göttingen University Germany only. The title-page statement that this is the first edition (“La premiere Edition”) is most unusual in the 17th century.

[289] MAY (Thomas). The History of the Parliament of England: Which began November the third, M.DC.XL. With a short and necessary view of some precedent yeares. First Edition. Small Folio, [16 (first leaf imprimatur)], 119, [1], 128, 115 pp., engraved vignette of a Tudor Rose on the title. Margins generally lightly browned throughout. Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners repaired, new endpapers, cloth inside joints). London: by Moses Bell, for George Thomason 1647 £300 Wing M1410 (+;+). Written “to vindicate parliament’s honour”, May’s history “traced the origins of the civil war back to Elizabeth’s reign and carried his story through to the siege of Gloucester, thus being able to end on a note of triumph” (ODNB). Aubrey suggested that May joined the parliamentary side after losing out to Sir William Davenant as Poet Laureate. Provenance: 1: “Tho: Liddell jnr”, 18th/19th-century signature on the reverse of the imprimatur leaf. 2: Walter Henry James, 2nd Baron Northbourne (1846- 1923), with armorial bookplate.

[290] MAYNWARINGE (Everard, M.D.). The Efficacy and extent of true Purgation. Shewing, I. What this Operation is; not as Vulgarly understood. II. How Performed in Human body. III. By what Means fitly to be done. IV. When; How oft; and in what Cases to be used; and what to be avoided; in this most frequent, and helpful Administration. Distinguished from Promiscuous Evacuations; injuriously procured, and falsly reputed Purging. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 34 pp. Mid-20th-century red morocco (small scuff at the head of the lower board). London: for D. Browne; and R. Clavel, 1696 £500 Wing M1491 (St John’s College Cambridge, Glasgow, Middle Temple Library, Royal College of Physicians in UK; Union Theological Seminary & National Library of Medicine in USA). Maynwaring boldly states from the outset that purgation “seldom fails to give good relief, and great assistance; in most, and almost all the complaints of diseased and infirm bodies” (1). The author’s main intention is to dispel the myths surrounding purgation and to legitimise it as a respectable medical practice.

[291] MAYNWARINGE (Everard, M.D.). The Mystery of Curing Comprehensively, Explained and Proved, Argumentatively & Practically in Three Parts. Approved the most Useful, Commodious, and Comprehensive Expedient; against Surprising painful Diseases; and secret Decays of Human Nature. Second Impression, Revised and Augmented. Second Edition. Small 4to., [4], 28 pp. Small rust hole through the fore-margin of A2 and with a very small piece torn away from the blank corner. Mid-20th-century red morocco (faint pencil sketch of a house on a sea-shore and lake-side on the front endleaves). MAGGS BROS LTD 131

London: by W. Crook; and J. Everingham, 1694 £500 Wing M1507 (British Library, Christ Church Oxford & Wellcome Institute in UK; National Library of Medicine & Yale in USA). First published in 1693 (Wing M1506, British Library, Bodley, Christ Church & Jesus Colleges Oxford; Folger). Maynwaringe (or Maynwaring) set up as a “doctor in physic” on Ludgate Hill in the early where he supported the use of “chemical medicines” as promulgated by Jean Baptiste van Helmont for treating various diseases. He gained (what appears to be successful) practical experience when he was employed at the pest-house for the poor in Middlesex (see ODNB). The ailments described in this work range from the common fever and ulcers to the more serious “epilepsy, apoplexy and convulsions” (C3v) all of which can be treated “comprehensively” with his new “Catholick Extract” - “That a single and singular Medicine, may be endowed with a Power of Universality or Comprehension; properly and efficaciously to oppose many and various Diseases, in divers Persons; is what I have undertaken to prove” (preface).

[292] MEDICINE. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis Collegarum, Hodie viventium studiis a symbolis ornatior. 16mo., [18], 366, 369-371, [21] pp. Untidy ink blots from a deleted shelf-mark or price on the title-page, neat closed tear across I3 (affecting one line of text), light rust marking on P8, small piece torn away from the fore-margin of S8 (just touching text). Contemporary black morocco; covers with a double gilt fillet and a small floral tool in each corner, spine divided by four raised bands, later paper label in the upper compartment and initials “SL” tooled in gilt at the foot of the spine, remains of catches (clasps missing, headcaps torn, joints and edges heavily rubbed). Londini: Typis, Johannis Streater, 1668 £650 Wing R2116A (Bodley & Library Company of Philadelphia only). Another edition of 1668 has [14], 349, [24]pp. (Wing R2116: British Library, Bodley, Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Surgeons; American Philsophical Society, Library Company of Philadelphia). The official Pharacopoeia of the London College of Physicians was designed to ensure “that noone throughout the whole of England was to compound any medicine, or to distil any oil or waters or extractions named in it except by the manner therein prescribed” (Clarke, A History of the Royal College of Physicians, 1964, p.227). The idea for a standardized manual had first been mooted by the College in 1589 but the project had been repeatedly stifled by a series of committees who were each given a section of the book to work on. The first edition, published in folio, appeared in 1618 and was reprinted on numerous occasions as mistakes were discovered and new material added. This edition retains the dedication to James I, has the address to the reader as it was updated by the 1650 edition (at least) and an updated list of fellows (including William Harvey) and candidates. Provenance: 1: Inscription on the title page reading “Liber Th: Harbech dono Jo: Eckly Pharmacopoei”; inscribed on the title. Presumably the same Dr. Thomas Harbech (fl. 1667) who owned a copy of Glisson’s Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis (fl. 1669-88) offered by Roger Gaskell in his Catalogue 42, “Books from the Library of Walter Pagel”, Part II, item 70). He took a degree in medicine at Leiden in 1669, is mentioned in Dr. Thomas Guidot’s treatise on Bath (1676) and may be one of the witnesses of the will of Simon Lawrence in Ledbury, Herefordshire, in 1688; six medical recipies on the flyleaves (including “Laudanum Liquidum” and “Elixyr Proprise”) are written on the endleaves. 2: Standfast Library, Nottingham, with early 19th-century booklabel pasted across the marbled pastedown and flyleaf and the inscription on the verso of the title-page “This book belongs to the Library in the Charity School Chamber in Nottingham given by Dr William Standfast”. Rev. William Standfast (1683-1754), rector of Clifton, Notts., presented his library of 1800 volumes to the Bluecoat Charity School in Nottingham ten years before he died with the intention that it might be used by learned men in the surrounding area. The Library was largely disregarded and eventually formed part of Nottingham Subscription Library. Standfast held degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge and he also received a medical degree from Cambridge. Around twenty-percent of the books in the library were of medical interest. The majority of the books were sold in the 1920s. 3. Unidentified bookplate dated 1925 with initials “A.L.S”.

[293] MENDES PINTO (Ferdinando). [COGAN (Henry), translator]. The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal: during his travels from the space of one and twenty years in the kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies. With a relation and description of most of the places thereof; their religion laws, riches, customs, and government in the time of peace and war [...] Written originally by himselfe in the Portugal tongue, and dedicated to the Majesty of Philip King of Spain. Done into English by H.C. Gent. Second Edition in English. Folio., [14], 231, 240-326 pp. Lightly stained, soiled and a little foxed in places throughout, very dark circular marking to the centre of Ee3 and with a small piece torn away from the blank corner of Fff1. Contemporary calf, rebacked and re-cornered; spine with the remains of a paper manuscript label reading ‘PINTO’ (front joint split, boards heavily rubbed and scuffed). 132 MAGGS BROS LTD

London: J. Macock, and are to be sold by Henry Herringman, 1663 £3000 Wing M1706 (+;+). Reprint of the first edition in English of 1653 (Wing M1705). Wing M1706A (a variant imprint known in only two copies is probably misreported). Mendes Pinto’s 21-years of travels began in 1537 when he left Portugal to make his fortune in a fleet bound for the Far East commanded by Vasco da Gama’s son. The story of his extraordinary exploits, the Peregrinacam, was not published in his lifetime, but when first issued in Portuguese in 1614 was an immediate success. Although the accuracy of the author’s memory was questioned from the outset the book came soon to be regarded as a classic “for it is not only an account of his travels but a work of art, which is at once a picture of Asia, a relation of what he did and saw, a summing up of the Portuguese Empire, a vast gallery of portraits and an encyclopedia of adventure both in the sphere of action and of the spirit “ (Maurice Collis, The Grand Peregrination, 1949). Pinto made four visits to Japan and claims to have been among the first Europeans to set foot on Japanese soil in 1543. He also gives first hand accounts of Ethiopia, India, Abyssinia, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, and China. Provenance: 1: Ink initials “N” and “O” in the upper margin of the final page. 2: James Calthrop, of Clare College, Cambridge [not in Venn], with 18th-century armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. 2: A Cambridge bookseller’s catalogue clipping (dated 1949 in pencil) priced £5 has been stuck to the front pastedown.

THOMAS HEARNE’S COPY [294] [MERITON (George)]. The Praise of York-Shire Ale. Wherein is enumerated several Sorts of Drink, with a Discription of the Humors of most sorts of Drunckards. To which is added, a York-shire Dialogue, in its pure natural Dialect, as is now commonly spoken in the North parts of York-shire. The Third Edition. With the Addition of some Observations, of the Dialect and Pronunciation of Words in the East Ryding of York-shire. Together with a Collection of significant and usefull Proverbs. By G. M. Gent. “Third [i.e. Second] Edition” of the first part, third edition of the second part. Small 8vo., [4], 124 pp. Title-page a little browned and with a wormhole expanding to a trail in sheet C before decreasing again at the third line from the bottom; front flyleaf glued to the inner margin of the title-page and obscuring the first letters on four lines including the Y of “York” in the imprint. Contemporary calf (head and tail of spine and corners repaired, new endleaves). York: by J. White, for Francis Hildyard, 1697 £1250 Wing M1810 (+;+). An amusing poem celebrating the “strong ale” of Yorkshire - so “fine” that “Bacchus swore hee’d never more drink wine”. With an important early glossary of Yorkshire dialect. The second part, A York-Shire Dialogue in verse has a separate title-page and first appeared published separately at York in 1683 and was reprinted with The Praise of York-shire Ale at York in 1685 (although the subtitle is dated 1684). Tbis edition adds “Some Observations concerning the Dialect and various Pronunciation of words in the East-Riding of York-shire” [“reprinted from fro[m] Ray’s local Words, p. 170” notes John Loveday; see Provenance] (pp. 79-81) and a “Collection of Significant and usefull Proverbs, some of which are appropriated to York-shire” (pp. 83-87). Provenance: 1: “George Thurwell his book 1703” inked in a box on the title. 2: Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford scholar and antiquary; no marks of ownership, but see below. Hearne bequeathed his books, coins, medals and manuscripts to William Bedford, son of the non-juror Hilkiah Bedford and they were sold by Thomas Osborne in February 1736. 3: John Loveday (1711-89), antiquary and traveller, with ink purchase note in his hand on the front flyleaf “pr. 1s. / 1735” and an ink note on the verso of the title: N.B. I bought ys book at ye Sale of good Mr. Hearne’s Study; Mr. Hearne spoke well of ye Thing, said yt He never saw any other Copy of it, nor did he know ye Author” and with “It is quoted in Cowel (edit. 1727.) sub voc.- Arvil-Supper.” While studying at Oxford, Loveday called on Thomas Hearne and the two struck up a friendship with Loveday joining the circle of scholars and antiquaries surrounding Hearne. On Hearne’s death on 10 June 1735 Loveday helped the family sort out his books, manuscripts and papers (Sheila Markham, John Loveday of Caversham 1711-1789: The Life and Tours of an Eighteenth Century Onlooker (London, 1984), p. 206). While Loveday’s only lifetime publications were a small number of pseudonymously written articles for the Gentleman’s Magazine, his greatest achievement was his embodiment of many of the ideals of the “scholar gentleman” or in Loveday’s case, the “old Tory country gentleman”, as he was widely known for his generosity as well as his elegance and scholarly accomplishments. By descent in the Loveday family library at Williamscote, near Banbury, Oxfordshire; dispersed in the 1960s.

[295] [MERITON (George)]. The Praise of York-Shire Ale . [Another Copy]. “Third Edition”. Small 8vo., [4], 124 pp. Dampstaining to margin between A8-D3, E3-F2, and somwhat more heavy staining to gatherings G-H, closely shaved at the foot at beginning and end, just touching a couple of catchwords. Contemporary sheep (head and tail of the spine damaged, short split at the head of the upper joint, covers with a few ink blots, corners bumped, rear endleaves staned). MAGGS BROS LTD 133

York: by J. White, for Francis Hildyard, 1697 £750 Wing M1810 (+;+).

[296] MERRET (Christopher). A Short View of the Frauds, and Abuses committed by Apothecaries; as well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians: and of the only Remedy thereof by Physicians making their own Medicines. By Christopher Merrett Dr. in Physic, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society. The Second Edition more correct. Second Edition. Small 4to., 78, [2 (blank)]pp., with the final blank leaf. Nasty stain and wormhole (repaired) in the centre of the imprimatur leaf causing a smaller stain and wormhole in the centre of the title-page; a number of brown spots/stains on A4v- B1r, minor closed tear to K1 and with a stain on the final text leaf and final blank leaf. Mid-20th-century half green morocco and marbled boards. London: James Allestry, Printer to the Royal Society, 1670 £240 Wing M1844 (+;+). A short treatise in which Merret, a founder-member of the Royal Society, called on his fellow physicians to take on their professional rivals, the apothecaries, by “drawing on the discoveries of the new [empirical] experimentalism to dispense remedies that were thereby superior” (ODNB). Merret’s argument has a deeply personal tone as his professional career was beginning to come under strain - the Great Fire and the plague has interrupted and spoilt much of his research and eventually he would be expelled from the College of Physicians, of which he had been keeper of the library and museum, both having been destroyed in the Great Fire, and the Royal Society.

[297] MILITARY. A Necessary Abstract of the Laws relating to the Militia, reduced into a Practical Method. To which is added, Instructions for Exercising the Trained Bands. Small 8vo., [20 (A8r advertisement)], 47, [1], 32 pp., engraved frontispiece. Small hole through the lower corner of A2 (touching two words,) blank cancellation slips pasted over a number of lines of text - on A3v (over two lines referring to Deputy Lieutenants), B6v (over twelve lines, partly roughly removed causing a small hole), B7r (over first two lines, together removing a declaration that it is unlawfull to take up arms against the king). Contemporary sheep (leather beginning to detach from boards, edges rubbed, flyleaves unstuck, front flyleaf browned by the turn-ins). London: for Robert Vincent, 1691 £180 Wing E918B (British Library, Bodley, National Trust [Dunham Massey] in UK; W. A. Clark, Folger, Huntington, Michigan, Yale in USA). The Folger copy also has the pasted-on cancellation slips but not the Huntington copy on EEBO. A series of rules and regulations to be followed by the English army following the Glorious Revolution. The final section includes “Instructions for excercise” - a series of routines involving marching and firing exercises. Provenance: George Helyar, of Coker Court, Somerset, with 18th-century armorial bookplate.

AN EARLY MILITARY DRILL MANUAL [298] MILITARY. An Abridgment of the English Military Discipline. Printed by Especial command, for the Use of His Majesties Forces. 8vo., 271 pp. Very small chip from the blank corner of the title-page, very minor stain touching the corner of A2, and with a small rust spot in the fore-margin of D2; some light browning; marbled edges occasionaly bleeding into the margin. Contemporary calf, marbled edges (rebacked, corners repaired, new endpapers). London: by the Assigns of John Bill deceas’d, Henry Hills and Thomas Newcombe, 1685 £240 Wing A105 (+,+). First published in 1676; this edition is expanded. Bound (and presumably issued) with: 134 MAGGS BROS LTD

Rules and Articles for the better Government of his Majesties Land-Forces in Pay during this present Rebellion. Published by his Majesties command. First Edition. Black Letter. 36 pp. Very small stain and a minor (5mm) closed tear to the fore-edge of A8, rust-hole in B2 (affecting text); closely shaved at the foot (just touching the text on B2 and a few catchwords) and fore-margin (touching a few sidenotes). London: by the Assigns of John Bill deceas’d, Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb, 1685. Wing R2239 (+,+). A supplement rushed out for use by James II’s forces during the Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion. It includes an oath of fidelity to the king and other rules against treating with the rebels. James was clearly worried about the loyalty of his own troops.

[299] MILTON (John). Mr John Miltons Character of the Long Parliament and Assembly of Divines. In MDCXLI. Omitted in his other works, and never before printed, and very seasonable for these times. First Edition. Small 4to., [4], 11, [1] pp. A couple of early pen trials and a later shelfmark on the title-page. Mid-20th-century half blue morocco and marbled boards. London: for Henry Brome, 1681 £500 Wing M2098 (+;+). A posthumously-published pamphlet by Milton on the Long Parliament and of Divines. Writing in the late 1640s (but before the execution of Charles I and establishment of the commonwealth), Milton had intended this work to be a digression in his History of Britain (1671), but the section was suppressed (“probably by Milton himself ” - Parker). Milton compares the England of the late 1640s, ravaged by Civil War, with the weakened state of the ancient Britons at the time of the Roman withdrawal, a prey to marauding invaders then and corrupt and mean-minded leaders now. See William R. Parker, Milton: a Biography (1968), pp. 332-7.

[300] MILTON (John). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Second Edition Revised and Augmented by the Author. Second Edition. Small 8vo., [8], 333, [1 (of 3, without the final blank leaf)] pp., engraved portrait by W. Dolle (remains of an old flyleaf stuck to the inner edge on the blank side). Lightly browned and spotted throughout, marginal tear from a paper fault on G4, dark stain touching two lines of text on the verso of I8, small hole from a paper flaw through P3 (touching one letter of the sub-title on the recto and two lines of text on the verso), closely shaved at the head. Contemporary calf (rebacked, new endleaves, surface of the leather crazed by damp). London: by S. Simmons, 1674 £600 Wing M2144 (+;+). Parker, Milton, p.635-6. Milton’s most famous poem was first published in 1667 and ran through a number of reissues in 1668 and 1669 before this second “revised and augmented” edition appeared in the final few months of his life. Parker states that although the second edition was advertised on the title-page as being revised and augmented it actually contained “few changes”. The major difference in this edition is that Milton split books seven and ten in order organise the work in twelve rather than ten books; this revision required the writing of “brief transitional verses for the new sections” as well as occasional “verbal revisions elsewhere”. Two new commendatory poems by Dr. Samuel Barrow and Andrew Marvell were also included in this edition.

[301] MILTONIANA. An Answer to a Book, intituled, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, or, A Plea for Ladies and Gentlewomen, and all other maried women against divorce. Wherein, both sexes are vindicated from all bondage of Law, and other mistakes whatsoever: And the unsound principles of the author are examined and fully confuted by the authority of Holy Scripture, the Laws of this Land, and sound reason. First Edition. Small 4to., [4], 44 pp. Some light browning and soiling throughout. 19th-century half blue morocco and boards, edges stained red (joints rubbed, front joint beginning to crack, corners bumped, edges chipped). London: by G[eorge]. M[iller]. for William Lee, 1644 £950 Wing A3304 (+,+). In his The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Milton argues that “contrariety of disposition” is just grounds for divorce. In doing so, Milton argues that one of the highest goods in marriage is conversation between husband and wife. He bases this on his reading of St. Paul’s rationale for marriage – “better to marry MAGGS BROS LTD 135

than burn”. To many modern readers it appears that Milton stretches the bounds of plausibility by arguing that St. Paul in fact refers to a “rational burning”, or an ardent desire for conversation rather than carnal satisfaction. The anonymous, likely Presbyterian, author of this reply to Milton’s text challenges Milton’s interpretation of Paul and argues that rather than “contrariety of disposition”, frigidity is a greater threat to marriage because when it occurs, “the other partie is, as to burning in lust, as if they were not married at all” (13).

[302] MONMOUTH’S REBELLION. A further Account, of the Proceedings against the Rebels in the West of England; who on the 10th of September, 1685. To the number of Two-Hundred Fifty One Received Sentence of Death, at Dorchester for High-Treason. Of which Number 67. were ordered to be Executed at Lyme, Bridport, Weymouth, Melcom-Regis, Sherborn, Pool, and Wareham, and the remainder respited till farther Order, September the 11th. 1685. Small Folio, 4 pp. Small piece torn from the fore-margin of the second leaf. Early 20th-century parchment-backed drab boards (back strip a little soiled). London: by E[lizabeth]. Mallet, 1685 £200 Wing F2545 (+;+). “It might have been reasonably imagined that former examples should have been sufficent, to have put a stop to those Factious Spirits...” A list of many of those condemned by Judge Jeffreys’ “Bloody Assizes” for their part in the Duke of Monmouth’s failed rebellion against James II. Of some 2600 prisoners, of whom half confessed, in the end 1381 were tried and found guilty of treason, of whom 200 were executed, with most of the rest being transported into slavery and almost certain death in the West Indies (information from ODNB). A facsimile of this was published, but not widely distributed, by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1977.

[303] MONRO (Major General Robert). The Scotch Military Discipline learned from the valiant Swede, and collected for the use of all worthy Commanders favouring the laudable profesion of Armes. By Major Generall Monro, Being now Generall of all the Scotch Forces against the Rebels in Ireland, communicates his Abridgement of Exercise, in divers Pacticall Observations for the younger Officers better instruction; ending with the Souldiers Meditations going on in Service. First Edition, second issue. Small Folio, [16], 89, [23], 224, [18] pp. Light to medium browning in places, particularly marginal). Contemporary sprinkled sheep, remains of an old paper label, red edges; fragments from a Black Letter edition of the Psalms as binder’s waste (worn, joints split but firm, spine defective at the head and tail, large areas of insect damage on the rear cover where the leather has been chewed away, lower corners chewed; some of the sheep has come away; a vertical smear of grey paint on the front cover near the joint; pastedowns unstuck). London: for William Ley 1644 £650 Wing M2454A (Birmingham Central Libraries, Bodley, Balliol College Oxford, Lamport Hall, National Library of Scotland in UK; Cleveland Public Library, Folger, Michigan in USA). Reissue of the first edition of 1637, Monro His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (called Mc-Keyes Regiment) levied in August 1626; STC 18022 (+;+). Having fought through the latter years of the Thirty Years’ War in the Swedish service from 1642 to 1648 Robert Monro was General of the Scottish forces in Ireland where he ran a fierce campaign against the rebels. He was finally captured by Parliamentary forces in Belfast and sent to the Tower of London where he was a prisoner for five years. He subsequently retired to the estates of his stepson Hugh Montgomery, Earl of Mount Alexander in Co. Down in Ireland. This work is in two parts with, in between, a table of the Scots and English officers and a table of the “duties” and distances of each part of Monro’s long service abroad. The first part ends with “The Colonell’s Observation of the Kingdome of Denmarke”. The “Abridgement of exercise for the Young Souldier his better Instruction” is followed by “Certaine Observations worthy the Younger Officer his consideration, being short and practicall for his Hignesse speciall use”, and “The Christian Souldier going on service his meditations”. The second of these is a peculiarly anecdotal and witty account of various salutary military tales ending with a story about military pieces big enough to load with children, hence, as Monro explains, the old Scots proverb “The Devill shoote Mounts in your arse.” Provenance: Contemporary signature “Wm: Lygo[n]” and motto “Christ est mort pour nos peches”; probably William Lygon (1644-1721), of Madresfield, Worcestershire; by descent to the Hon. Edward Lygon (1786-1860), son of the 1st Earl Beauchamp, of Madresfield Court, with label. 136 MAGGS BROS LTD

[304] MONTAIGNE (Michel de). COTTON (Charles), translator. Essays of Michael Seigneur De Montaigne. In Three Books. With Marginal Notes and Quotations of the cited Authors. And an Account of the Author’s Life. To which is added a short Character of the Author and Translator, by way of Letter; written by a Person of Honour. Now rendred into English by Charles Cotton, Esq; 3 vols. 8vo., [16], 555, [5]. [6], 624, 623-638, 635-722. [4], 336, 335-414, 417-559, [1] pp., engraved portrait in vol. 1. Occasional gatherings are noticeably browner than others (due to a different paper stock being used), minor spotting and rust-spotting in places, small piece torn from the lower margin of the last leaf of vol. 1 Contemporary calf with the gilt crest (a heart winged ensigned with an imperial crown) of the Duke of Queensberry on the covers (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves). London: for T. Basset, M. Gilliflower and W. Hensman, 1693 £750 Wing M2480 (+;+). Vol. 2 has “Second Edition” on the title. Cotton’s translation was first published in 1685-86. Provenance: 1: William Douglas, 3rd Earl and 1st Duke of Queensberry (1637-1695), High Treasurer of Scotland, gilt crest on the covers and press-mark “Press. G: sh: 3: No: 27 [-29]” on the title of vol. 1 and flyleaves of vols. 2-3, sale, Edinburgh, 18/11/1813. 2: Thomas Maitland, of Dundrennan, mid-19th-century bookplate remounted on the front pastedowns. 3: JSC’s bookplate on the pastedown of vol.1 and with some occasional notes on the prelimaries throughout.

[305] MORE (Henry). The Immortality of the Soul, so farre forth as it is demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason. First Edition. 8vo., [40], 549, [35] pp. Light browning. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind (headcap broken, upper joint beginning to crack at the head; endleaves browned by the turn-ins, upper corners worn). London: by J. Flesher for William Morden, 1659 £600 Wing M2663 (+;+). In this work More attempts to prove the existence of incorporeal spirits. More argued that the existence of spirits is logically connected to the existence of God. This work, and his Antidote against atheisme highlight the philosophical aspect of his theology and place him in opposition to materialists such as Hobbes. Provenance: 1: Thomas Willughby (d. 1729), son of the naturalist Francis Willughby (1635-1672), signature and shelf-mark on the title-page and signature of (?another) “Thos. Willughby below a deleted inscription “Liber J. Wright” on the flyleaf. He has also written in Latin below the errata on the verso of Pp4 that he has corrected the errata in the text “Haec omnia meo in codice emendant[u]r”.

HENRY MORE’S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK [306] [MORE (Henry)]. Psychodia Platonica: or a Platonical Song of the Soul, consisting of foure severall Poems. Psychodia. Psychathanasia. Antipsychopannychia. Antimonopsychia. Hereto is added a Paraphrasticall Interpretation of the Answer of Apollo consulted by Amelius, about Plotinus soul departed this life. First Edition. 8vo., [12], 54, [8], 109, [9], 45, [17] pp. Title-page lightly soiled, small marginal stain to the verso of D2 and the recto of D3, small piece torn from the blank fore-margin of E1, small piece torn from the corner of H3 with loss of catchword, light soiling, spotting and intermittent marginal dampstaining throughout. Contemporary (probably Cambridge) black morocco with a gilt tooled arabesque centred on both covers, double gilt rule border with floral tool at each corner, smooth spine divided into 11 compartments (joints rubbed and chipped, insect damage to small section of front cover, corners bumped). Cambridge: by Roger Daniel, 1642 £2500 Wing M2674 (British Library [Thomason Collection], Bodley, Cambridge, Edinburgh University & Signet Library [largely dispersed] in UK; Huntington, Newberry Library, Harvard, Folger & Yale in USA). First edition of the first published work by one of the “leading philosophical minds of the seventeenth-century” (ODNB). Henry More was a prolific philosopher, poet, and theologian who was famed for both his outstanding intellect and his religious tolerance. At Cambridge, More was a member of a circle of admirers of Plato, whom he describes in the introduction to this work as “the best and divinest of philosophers” (A4). “These poems not only established More as a Platonist, but also showed his interest in the new science of Galileo and Copernicus and in the new philosophy of Descartes. More was one of the first Englishmen to show an interest in Cartesianism.” (ODNB). More’s later work on infinite space theory is now seen by many MAGGS BROS LTD 137

to be an important precursor to Newton’s theories. More was widely read in his day and according to his publisher he “ruled all the booksellers in London” (ODNB) Provenance: Early to mid-19th-century manuscript annotations to the front pastedown noting that this copy was “not in the collection of Mr. Farmer, or Mr. [Heber?]”. An annotation at the foot of the rear pastedown notes that this copy was purchased at the Lowndes sale [likely Henry Lowndes whose auction was on 7 November 1843] as lot 1076 consisting of 5 books. Also on the rear pastedown are pencil sketches of two heads - one of a woman and one of a man.

[307] MORE (Sir Thomas). [BURNET (Gilbert), translator]. Utopia: Written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England: Translated into English. 8vo., [22], 206 pp., without the first and last blank leaves. Repair to top margin of title-page where a signature has been removed (with loss to the frame), occasional spots. Mid-19th-century half calf and marbled boards by William Cole of Bideford, Devon, with label (rubbed). London: for Richard Chiswell, 1684 £950 Wing M2691 (+;+). Gibson, More, 30. First Edition of Gilbert Burnet’s anonymous English translation.

[308] NAUDÉ (Gabriel). DAVIES (John), translator. The History of Magick by way of Apology, for all the Wise Men who have unjustly been reputed Magicians, from the Creation, to the present Age. Written in French by G. Naudaeus Late Library- Keeper to Cardinal Mazarin. First Edition in English. 8vo., [16], 306, [2 (advertisements)] pp., with the final advertisement leaf. Slight foxing to the title- page, A2 and the final two leaves, some occasional spotting in places, small rust mark on O4 (just touching text), closely shaved at the head. Early 20th-century calf, gilt, by J. Larkins, all edges gilt (joints rubbed and cracked, covers scuffed and crazed by the mottling acid). [London]: for John Streater,1657 £600 Wing N246 (+;+). Translation of Apologie pour tous les grands personnages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de magie (1625). A pseudo-scientific work on the occult and an apology to those who had, by previous authors, been described as magicians (and as such in league with the devil) such as Socrates, Roger Bacon, Agrippa and Vergil. Provenance: JSC’s pencil notes on the front pastedown: “Bought from Leo Rullman New York whilst on holiday there 1930 Sep. J.S.Cox” for $25; three bookseller’s catalogue notes have been attached to the pastedown and front flyleaf.

“ ... FANCY IS THE SOUL IN POETRY ... ” [309] NEWCASTLE (Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of). Poems and Fancies: written by the Right Honourable, the Lady Margaret Countess of Newcastle. First Edition. Folio. [16], 160, [4], 141-192, 191-214 pp. Title-page soiled and frayed along edges, closed tear to the lower blank margin of A7, K4 and L1 soiled and stained with small tears to the lower inner margin, small stain to the verso of R3 and the recto of R4, dampstain to the top of Ee3-4, dampstain to the upper inner and blank fore-margins of Hh-Kk, closed tear to the foot of the final leaf Kk4, some light soiling and staining throughout. Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed with a gilt double-rule and rhombus/square roll, floral tool at corners, spine with five raised bands and the remains of a red morocco label in the second panel, gilt edges (10 x 20 mm piece torn from top of spine, front joint lightly chipped, covers lightly scratched, corners bumped and chipped). London: by T. R[oycroft]., for J.Martyn, and J. Allestrye, 1653 £3500 Wing N869 (+;+). 138 MAGGS BROS LTD

First edition of the first published work by the brilliant and enigmatic Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-1673). The work outlines, among other things, her atomic theory and her theory of poetics. An engraved portrait of the Duchess (full-length in a niche flanked by statues of Minerva and Apollo by Pieter van Schuppen after Abraham van Diepenbeeck) appears in a number of copies of this (but not the present copy) and other (later) books by the Duchess. “The present engraving is distributed throughout many different texts including some copies of Playes (1662) and Plays (1668). The pattern for this distribution remains unclear as the frontispieces not only appear in presentation copies such as those gifted to the English and European universities; in some cases their presence [or absense] may also be the result of later sophistication by collectors. Meyer (entry on Van Schuppen in Macmiillan Dictionary of Art, 1996, vol. 8, p. 178) dates the print to 1655, Van Schuppen’s first year in Paris.” - James Knowles, in Ben van Beneden & Nora de Poorter, eds, Royalist Refugees: William and Margaret Cavendish in the Rubens House 1648-1660 (2006), p. 151. This is two years after the publication of this volume but a stock of copies of the portrait was retained by the Duchess for presentation for many years after so impressions of this portrait or the other portraits of the Duchess or her family could easily be added to copies later as or if required. Modern literary critics have rediscovered Margaret Cavendish and have focused intently on “the apparent contradictions in her self-presentations as royalist and feminist, as solitary genius and happy wife” (Suzuki, 483). However, her verse, consisting “not so much in number, words, and phrase, as in fancy” (212), deserves close study not only because the content reflects and transforms many of the leading scientific and philosophical ideas of the time but also because the “fancy” itself, it has been recently argued, is “a strategic form of philosophical dissent” (Stark, 265) that responds to the calls of the Royal Society for language to mirror “the plain, disinterested laws of the universe ‘discovered’ by early modern science” (ibid). Cavendish was acquainted with the tenets of early modern science through her contact with such scientific figures as René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Thomas Sprat, Pierre Gassendi and Walter Charleton, among others and their ideas filter through her poetry. For example, Cavendish’s atomic theory described in verse in the present work “resembles that of Walter Charleton” (ODNB). At a time when authors who employed an elaborate or florid writing style “were charged with connotations of impropriety, enthusiasm, and irrationality” (Stark, 265), her “fanciful” writing style can be interpreted on one level as a revolt against the strictures of early modern science, and on another as a rebellion against society’s strictures generally. However, Cavendish was never this explicit. She discusses her poetics in depth, beginning on page 212 of the present work. For her, writing was entertainment: “my intention was, not to teach Arts, nor Sciences, nor to instruct in Divinity, but to passe away idle time” (212) yet it was not an entirely frivolous exercise since she had a message that she desired to convey to her audience: “I rather chose to leave the elegance of words, then to obstruct the sense of the matter” (212). Provenance:William Snowden, 18th-century signature “Wm: Snowden” to verso of final leaf.

[310] NEWCASTLE (William Cavendish, Duke of). The Varietie, a Comoedy, lately presented by His Majesties Servants at the Black-Friers. 12mo., [4], 87, [1] pp., final two leaves and the central part of the fore-edge of B5 supplied in 18th-century manuscript. Title-page and subsequent leaves a little dusty, printer’s crease across the centre of C3 and C10, upper edge closely shaved (touching headlines in places). Stitched into part of a vellum leaf from a ?14th-century folio Vulgate Bible with 12 lines from Ecclesiasticus in a gothic bookhand on the inside (the outside blank). London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1649 £350 Second part of Wing N877 (+;+), issued as The Country Captaine, and The Varietie. Two Comedies, written by a Person of Honour. Greg, English Drama II, 692. Although issued together the two plays are bibliographically distinct. The Country Captaine was printed at The Hague by the royalist publisher Samuel Browne and a specially-printed joint titlepage was provided in London. The Varietie was written c. 1639/40 and performed “before September 1642, possibly in late 1641. ... The plays are notable for their debt to Ben Jonson’s work and their critical attitude towards the Frenchified court of Charles I. In The Varietie proper English masculinity is embodied in Manly, who dresses in Elizabethan costume, and who eulogizes the past, ‘those honest days when knights were gentlemen and proper men took the wall of dwarves’.” - James Knowles, in Ben van Beneden & Nora de Poorter, eds, Royalist Refugees: William and Margaret Cavendish in the Rubens House 1648-1660 (2006), p. 162. Provenance: Bound in the vellum fragment at the time of or soon after the 18th-century manuscript final two leaves were supplied (the headlines are shaved). Cutting from an old auction catalogue pasted inside the front cover with JSC’s pencil purchase note “7/6 1942”. MAGGS BROS LTD 139

CONDEMNING ROGUES AND PRIESTS [311] NEWGATE PRISON. A Coppy of the Prisoners judgment condemned tody [sic] from Nugate on Mundaie the 13. of Decemb: 1641. With the examination of the Bishop of Calcedon, and the rest of the Iesuits condemned to die: and the names of the other prisoners condemned, and the matter for which they suffer whereunto is added the names of those who deny the oath of Supremacy. Shewed first to the officers or the prison and after to one of the Iury that so the truth might be printed. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 6 pp., crude woodcut of a hanging man on the verso of the verso of the title. Small ink stain to the head of the title-page over the first two letters of “COPPY”, lightly soiled/dusty throughout but otherwise a good, uncut, copy. Early 20th-century half calf, remains of a circular paper label on the front cover (rubbed). London: by Thomas Paine, 1641 £1100 Wing C6221 (British Library & Guildhall Library in UK; W.A.Clark, Folger & Huntington in USA). Only edition of this pre-cursor of the infamous Newgate Calendars of the 18th century, containing an account of the trial of seven Catholic priests (two others, although “nothing could be proved against either of them, ... they were found guiltie as the other seven were”). The work also describes the offences of 24 other men and women who were punished with them for such various crimes as burglary and robbery, horse-stealing, manslaughter, coining, theft, rape, and buggery, and highway robbery. This rare little pamphlet provides a snapshot of crime and punishment in England just before the Civil War. All were sentenced to death except Margaret Hethersall condemned “for picking of a pocket: but by reason shee is with child, she is reprived” Although condemned to death the Catholic priests were not executed. Walter Coleman, an Irish Franciscan, for example, described as “a tall black man, being also charged with high treason for officiating in this his native country, as a priest under the Pope ...”, died in Newgate in 1645.

[312] NICOLSON (William). The English Historical Library: or, a Short View and Character of most of the Writers now Extant, either in Print or Manuscript; which may be serviceable to the Undertakers of a General History of this Kingdom. [- Part II. Giving a Catalogue of the most of our Ecclesiastical Historians ... - Part III. Giving an Account of our Records, Law-Books and Coins from the Conquest to the End of Q. Elizabeth’s Reign: so far as they are Serviceable to History.]. First Edition. 8vo. [xxiv], 232, [8 (last leaf advertisement]; [iv], li, [i (blank), 233, [7]; [iv], xxvii, [i], 315, [5]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, covers panelled in gilt, gilt spine, red morocco label (headcap torn away, joints cracked). London: for Abel Swall and T. Child [- for Abel Swall, 1697 - for Timothy Childe, 1699], 1696 £350 Wing N1146, 1147, 1148 (+;+). “… a comprehensive bibliography of printed and manuscript materials on English history, compiled with a patriotic as well as a scholarly purpose. The work was also infused with a vigorous wit, which made austere commentators suspicious, and there were inevitably errors, which exposed Nicolson to the criticism that he was hasty and sometimes slapdash in his scholarship.” (ODNB). Provenance: Charming inscription on the flyleaf “Annamaria Lewis Her Book Given me by my Dearest Dear Anno Domini 1700”. 140 MAGGS BROS LTD

A RARE FRENCH TRANSLATION BY A YOUNG ENGLISH LORD [313] NORRIS (John). Conseil Spirituel, ou Avis d’un Pere a ses Enfans. Traduit de l’Anglois en François par un jeune Milord, âgé de huit ans. First Edition in French. 12mo., [8], 100 pp. A little browned in places throughout, small piece torn away from the blank corner of A6. Contemporary calf; gilt spine (lower joint split at the foot, upper corner worn). A Londres: Chez Veuve Marret & Henri Ribotteau, 1698 £1250 Wing C5900B (Christ Church Oxford & W.A. Clark only). A French translation, by “un jeune Seigneur, des plus grandes Familles d’Angleterre”, of the Cambridge Platonist Norris’s Spiritual counsel; or, the father’s advice to his children (1694).” The preface to the first editon of 1684 says, “This little Manual of Spiritual Counsel, was at first undertaken and composed by the Author for the Private Use of his own Children; but upon a Review, it being thought as useful to others as to them, he was induced to make it publick for the Common Good.” Norris had two sons who both became clergymen and a daughter who married one, so his “spiritual counsel” clearly worked. Dedicated by the joint publisher Anne Marret to Charlotte de Bourbon-Malause, Demoiselle de Malause (1659-1732), daughter of the Marquis de Malause & Miremon, and a Huguenot religious exile from France. Provenance: 1: Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort (1684-1714), with armorial bookplate dated 1705 and two Badminton House ink shelfmarks (one deleted). 2: JSC’s pencil price “Not in Wing £10-10-0”.

[314] NOVELLAS. Delightful and Ingenious Novells: Being Choice and Excellent Stories of Amours, Tragical and Comical. Lately related by the most Refin’d Wits. Under Borrowed Names. With Interludes between each Novel. Viz. I. The Lucky Throw, or, a Wife by Chance II. The Frustrated Intentions or Loves Martyrdom. III. The Distressed Traveller. Or, Fortune at last. IV. The Generous Gallant, or, the Intrigues of Love. V. The Unhappy Counterfeit. Or, Fortunate Gipsy. VI. The Champion of Honour. Or, Vertue Preserv’d. Entered according to Order. First Edition. 12mo., [4], 136, [4] pp., with the final two advertisement leaves (G11-G12). Closely shaved at head (touching many page numbers) and at the fore-edge (touching the text on a few pages); large dampstain and some ink marking on the title-page, damp-stain along the upper edges between A2-C2, C4-C9 and E1-F1; small hole through A2, small piece torn away from the corner of A3 (slight loss to the start of three lines on verso); lower edge of E6 damaged (with some loss of text), printer’s crease across F3 and F10 and with some minor worming in the lower inner margin throughout. 19th-century half calf and marbled boards (boards faded and corners bumped). London: for Benjamin Crayle, 1685 £1800 Wing D902 (Huntington [ex Bridgewater] & Columbia [not on their online catalogue CLIO] only; no copy in UK). Six short stories on the theme of love which were apparently written by the “most Refin’d Wits” but published under psuedonyms (Geronto, Aurelia, Lysander, Florimel, Parmenio, Evadne) to protect the identity of the author/s. Wing D904 (British Library & W.A. Clark only) is a “Fourth Impression, enlarged with the addition of two new novels”. No other editions are recorded. The advertisment for “books lately printed for and sold by Benjamin Crayle” also states that Crayle was a purveyor of “Dr. Barkers Famous Gout Plaister” (G12r). Sharon Young, in “Exilic exile in Jane Barker’s (re)creations of landscape” (available online) draws attention to this advertisement, and notes that Crayle also published Jane Barker’s Poetical Recreations (1688) in which Barker writes, “The sturdy gout, which all male power withstands / I overcome with my soft female hands”. The ODNB notes of Jane Barker (1652-1732), poet and novelist, that “unheralded in her own time, Barker is one of the most significant figures to emerge in the feminist recovery of early modern women writers. ... Although Barker is now recognized as one of the most innovative of the early novelists, her significance resides as much in the shape of her career as in the merits of her fictions. As a coterie and then court-poet turned market-place novelist, she exemplifies the emergence of female literary professionalism, her long and diverse writing life illustrating the shift from an amateur, court-centred manuscript- based literary system to the market-driven culture of print.”

[315] OLDHAM (John). The Works of Mr. John Oldham, Together with his Remains. Second Edition. 8vo., [8], 148, [10], 134, [8], 215, [1], [28], 127 pp., issue with “Heathen” as catchword on A2. Foot of D4 creased, very light rust spotting to a number of leaves throughout. Contemporary blind roll-tooled calf (head of spine chipped, joints rubbed, corners bumped). MAGGS BROS LTD 141

London: Printed for Jo[seph]. Hindmarsh, 1686 £120 Wing O226 (+,+). In 4 parts each with a separate pagination and title-page. A third reissue of the sheets of the first edition of 1684 with the second edition of the Remains dated 1687 added. Provenance: Contemporary inscription, “Josias Calmady ex dono Johan Dubois Nov 5th 1689” to the front free endpaper.

[316] OVIDIUS NASO (Publius). WOLFRESTON or WOLFERSTON (Francis), translator. The Three Books of Publius Ovidius Naso, de Arte Amandi. Translated, with Historical, Poetical, and Topographical Annotations. By Francis Wolferston, of the Inner-Temple, Gent. First Edition. 8vo., [6], 112 pp. Very light rust spotting on D8 and F2, small rust-hole through F6 (touching two lines of text), E8 lightly stained. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, spine with later gilt tooling and red morocco label (10mm piece torn away from foot of the spine, joints slightly cracked at the head, covers with some surface scuffing, corners bumped, rear flyleaf loose and stained by the turn-ins). London: for Joseph Cranford, 1661 £1100 Wing O693 (British Library and Victoria & Albert Museum [ex Forster] in UK; Huntington [ex Britwell], Newberry Library and Library of Congress in USA). Francis Wolfreston (1638-1712) was the eldest surviving son of the well-known female bibliophile Frances Wolfreston (1607-77), of Statfold Hall, near Tamworth, Worcestershire. Her library of early plays, literature and theology, with many unbound and uncut copies, distinguished by her ownership inscription “Frances Wolfreston hor bouk”, was inherited by another son, Stanford (b. 1652) and remained at Statfold Hall until they were sold at Sotheby’s in 1856. See Paul Morgan, “Frances Wolfreston and ‘Hor Bouks’: a seventeenth-century woman book-collector”, in The Library (1989), p.197-219. Also see ODNB. Provenance: 1: Montagu Webster, ink signature and date “June 25/[18]77” on the front flyleaf. 2: JSC’s “Cx” cipher in ink and pencil purchase note “Bought Nov 26 1934” on the front pastedown.

[317] OVIDIUS NASO (Publius). JONES (John), translator. Ovid’s Invective or Curse against Ibis, faithfully and familiarly Translated into English verse. And the Histories therein contained, being in number two hundred and fifty (at the least) briefly explained, one by one; with the Natural, Moral, Poetical, Political, Mathematical, and some few Theological Applications. Whereunto is prefixed a double Index: one of the Proper Names herein mentioned; another of the Common Heads from thence deduced. Both pleasant and profitable for each sort, Sex and Age, and very useful for Grammar Schools. By John Jones M.A. teacher of a private school in the city of Hereford. First Edition. 8vo., [28] 164 pp. Title-page A1, F2 and N2 (final leaf) heavily trimmed (to remove an inscription), title partly loose and frayed at the inner margin with slight loss from worming at the head and a small hole in the imprint, some minor worming in the upper inner margin of A2-B5 and with some dampstaining to C2, F1 and L1-N2. Contemporary sheep (the book-block almost loose in the case; spine cracked, boards chipped and bumped). [London]: by J. G. for Ric. Davis, 1658 £200 Wing O678 (+;+). With a leaf of manuscript binder’s waste as the rear pastedown (now loose) which has on the verso the contents list of a mid-17th-century English mathematical treatise (not William Oughtred’s Key (1647), but similar) from “Addition of Rational species both simple & compound. Chap. 3. Of sustraction. Chap. 4. Of Multiplication. Chap. 5. Of division. Chap. 6. Of the four parts of Numeration of fractions in species. ... Chap. 10. Containing several considerations of two Numbers & questions deduced from them; wherein all the former rules in this Book are practiced being very useful for the managing of an Equation.” Provenance: ‘John’ repeated signature in an early hand on the title-page, inscriptions cut from three fore-margins; inscription on B5r: “As hungery people wil refuse nothing though never so hard to attempt so as it may get victualls to suffice their hunger: so there is nothing so hard to be attaind but money will do it (except Death) wch is slaid by nothing”. 142 MAGGS BROS LTD

[318] OWEN (John). John Owen’s Latine Epigrams Englished by Tho. Harvey, Gent. Dedicated by the author Mr. John Owen unto the Lady Mary Nevil, Daughter of the Earl of Dorset. Reissue of the First English edition of 1677. 8vo., [8], 208, [2] pp. Some occasional light soiling, paper flaw to the blank lower right corner of C5 (no loss of text), small burn hole to D7 (no loss of text). Late nineteenth or early twentieth century mustard morocco (corners bumped, spine sunned). London: for Edward Robinson, book-seller in Ludlow, 1678 £450 Wing O825F (Bodley, Lincoln’s Inn, Dr. Williams’s Library, Worcester College Oxford & National Library of Wales in UK; Newberry, Library of Congress, Princeton [Robert H. Taylor Collection], Yale & University of Western Ontario in North America. This is a reissue of the sheets of the 1677 edition with the original title-page cancelled and replaced by a new title-page specially printed for the Ludlow bookseller Edward Robinson who had bought a batch of the unsold sheets of the first edition.

[319] OXFORD UNIVERSITY. [LANGBAINE (Gerard), part author]. The Answer of the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the , to the Petition, Articles of Grievance, and Reasons of the city of Oxon. Presented to the Honourable Committee for Regulating the University of Oxford the 24. of July 1649. Second Edition. Small 4to., 46pp., without the final blank leaf. Title-page spotted and stained, text less so. Late 19th-century half roan and marbled boards (rubbed). Oxford: by H. Hall and are to be sold by Ric: Davis, 1678 £100 Wing L364 (+;+). Madan, Oxford Books, III, 3184. A list of the various grievances held by the City of Oxford against the University with the University’s response composed by Gerard Langbaine. Provenance: Frederic Morrell, armorial bookplate dated 1886 on front pastedown.

[320] OXFORD UNIVERSITY. MAYNE (Jasper). Concio ad Academiam Oxoniensem pro more habita inchoante termino, Maii 27. 1662. Only Edition. Small 4to., [2 of 4], 42 pp., without the first blank leaf and lacking the errata leaf F4. Title-page browned and with a damp stain in the upper fore-corner continuing onto subsequent leaves A3-B4, rust spot to margin of F3, and with a small damp stain in the gutter of G4-F3. 19th-century half calf and marbled boards. London: by J[ohn]. Grismond for R[ichard]. Royston, 1662 £100 Wing M1469 (+ in UK; W. A. Clark, Illinois, Texas and Union Theological Seminary in USA). A pamphlet in which Mayne, a clergyman poet and playwright, expresses his displeasure with the post-Restoration state of Oxford University. [Bound with]: SOUTH (Robert). Interest deposed, and Truth restored, or a Word in Season delivered in Two Sermons: the First at St. Maryes in Oxford, on the 24th of July, 1659 being the time of the Assizes: as also of the Fears and Groans of the Nation in the threatned and expected Ruine of the Laws, Ministery, and Universities. The other Preached lately before the honourable societie of Lincolns-Inn. Second Edition. [12], 33, [1] pp., lacking the second sermon (F4-L4). Oxford: W. Hall for George West, 1668. Wing S4734 (+;+).

[321] OXFORD UNIVERSITY. Verses by the University of Oxford. On the Death of the Most Noble, and Right Valiant Sir Bevill Grenvill, alias Granvill, Kt. Who was slain by the Rebells at the Battle on Lansdown-Hill, near Bathe, July the 5. 1643. Third Edition. Small 4to., [10], 48 pp., engraved portrait by Faithorne. Some very minor spotting in places. 19th-century calf, ruled in gilt, by Bedford, marbled endleaves (rear joint lightly rubbed at foot). Printed at Oxford in the Year of our Lord, 1643. and now Reprinted at London, 1684 £550 Wing O989 (+;+). MAGGS BROS LTD 143

An expanded edition of a collection of poems that mourn the death of the Royalist soldier Sir Bevil Grenville. In the first edition, published in Oxford in 1643 (Wing O990 (six copies in U.K.; Folger, Huntington, Harvard, Texas and Yale), the poems were signed only with the initials of the authors rather than with their full names. The poems were written by , William Barker, William Cartwright and Martin Lluellyn among others. Provenance: 1: Ink purchase note “Lilly 1857 N. Tite £7” on the flyleaf. 2: Cutting from the North Devon Journal, dated 1858, relating to the Grenvilles after the Restoration has been pasted in. 3: Early 20th-century bookseller’s ticket of J.A.D Bridger, Penzance on the front pastedown.

[322] PATRICK (John). The Psalms of David in Metre: Fitted to the Tunes used in Parish-Churches. First Edition. 12mo. [4], 168, 165-326, [6], 20 (music and directions for singing) [4, advertisements]. Heavily browned and spotted throughout. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind (rebacked, new endleaves). London: for A. and J. Churchill, 1698 £150 Wing B2608 (+ in UK; Boston Public Library, New York Public Library, & Yale in USA). Provenance: 1: Inscription on the front pastedown (revealed by a hole cut from the new pastedown), “E Libris Thome Gregge. 1699 Praetium[m] 1s. v111d. Sternhold was made Groom of Stole by Henr. 8 for his Psalms”. With a purple stamp on the second leaf, “E Libris H. G. Doggett, [Jc2] In Catalogue” and ink inscription at the end “9 Oct 1886. Bot at Matthew in Upper Arcade, Bristol. Cost 6, G.D.” 3: JSC’s pencil purchase note “1923 Martin Bristol 6/6 4/6+2/-” at the front and “First Book Rebacked at Langdon and Davis Bristol 1927. JSCox Bought from Martin 2/- Rebacking 4/6 / 6/6”.

[323] PENN (William). England’s present Interest discovered with Honour to the Prince, and Safety to the People. In Answer to this One Question; What is most Fit, Easie and Safe at this Juncture of Affairs to be done, for Composing, at least Quieting of Differences; Allaying the Heat of Contrary Interests, & making them subservient to the Interest of the Government, and consistent with the Prosperity of the Kingdom. Presented and submitted to the consideration of superiours. Small 4to., [2], 6, [24], 7-28 pp. Light ink staining to a1 and with a number of manuscript page numbers. Modern blue morocco. [London: by Andrew Sowle] in the Year 1675 £365 Wing P1279 (+;+). One of several printings in the same year. The text ends with Penn’s signature on D3v and the first part of the text sheet d is unpaginated with empty brackets. The missing numbers have been filled in by hand and pp. 7-28 altered to 31-52.

[324] PENN (William). Primitive Christianity revived, in the Faith and Practice of the People called Quakers. Written in Testimony to the present Dispensation of God, through Them, to the World; that Prejudices may be Removed, the Simple Informed, the Well-enclined Encouraged, and the Truth and its Innocent Friends Rightly Represented. Second Edition. Small 8vo., [10], 158 pp. Title-page lightly foxed and with some further occasional foxing throughout, staining to the corner of B2 and B6, minor rust spotting to C3 and I2 and with a small stain to the centre of K8. Contemporary sheep, covers ruled with a dog-tooth roll in blind (joints split, headcaps missing and with a small circular chip from the upper board). London: by T. Sowle, 1699 £150 Wing P1343 (+;+). First published in 1696. Provenance: 1: “Rob[er]t Lambert”, early 19th-century signature on the pastedown. 2: John Phillips, signature dated 1839 on the flyleaf.

[325] PENN (William). Quakerism a New Nick-Name for old Christianity. Being An Answer to a Book, Entituled, Quakerism No Christianity; subscribed by J. Faldo. In which the Rise, Doctrine and Practice of the Abused Quakers are Truly, Briefly and Fully Declared and Vindicated from the False Charges, Wicked Insinuations, and utmost opposition made by that Adversary. With a Key, Opening the True Meaning of some of their Doctrine, from that Construction which their Enemies Ignorantly or Enviously Affirm, Report and Dispute to be theirs. By one of them, and a Sufferer with them in all their sufferings, William Penn. First Edition. 8vo. [16], 254 pp. Browned throughout, edges a little bumped, title-page and second leaf have become stuck- together in the inner margin. Contemporary black morocco with all over gilt tooling of “drawer-handles”, acorns, tulips and stars 144 MAGGS BROS LTD

(nastily rebacked, new endleaves). [London]: Printed [by Andrew Sowle] Anno, 1672 £180 Wing P1347 (+;+). A reply to John Faldo’s anti-Quaker tract Quakerism no Christianity which was published in the previous year. Penn’s response sparked the beginning of a series of pamphlets by the two writers culminating in Faldo challenging Penn to a public debate, a challenge which Penn declined. Also issued as part of Five Tracts Apologetical [1672-4] and Several Tratcs Apologetical [1672-4]. Provenance: Early signature “John Garland” on the title page.

LIFE AT UNIVERSITY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY [326] [PENTON (Stephen)]. The Guardian’s Instruction or, the Gentleman’s Romance. Written for the diversion and service of the gentry; particularly those educated in Oxford and Cambridge. 12mo., [16], 90, [2] pp., variant with imprimatur leaf, final contents leaf and period after “Romance” in line 5 of the title. Small rust-spots on A1 and G4 and signature cut from the rear flyleaf. Contemporary calf, black morocco spine label lettered and ruled in gilt (rubbed, upper joint damaged by worming at the head and tail and corners bumped, large areas of surface insect damage on the covers). London: for the Authour, and sold by Simon Miller, 1688 £300 Wing P1439A (+,+). One of three editions dated 1688. Penton was educated at New College, Oxford, and later held the post of principal at St Edmund’s Hall. In an attempt to attract more students to the University Penton produced this book which promotes the value of a University education, particularly for younger sons who would not inherit their father’s estates. Provenance: Dukes of Beaufort, Badminton House, Gloucestershire, with ink shelf-marks on the endleaves and pencil note by JSC “From Duke of Beaufort’s Library”.

A DYING MAN’S ADVICE TO HIS DAUGHTER [327] PETER or PETERS (Hugh). A Dying Fathers last Legacy to an Onely Child: Or, Mr. Hugh Peters Advice to his Daughter: Written by his own Hand, during his late Imprisonment in the Tower of London; And given her a little before his Death. Second Edition. 12mo. [6], 122, [1] pp., lacking the engraved portrait. Title-page torn across the centre and crudely repaired (affecting two lines of text), browned throughout. Late 19th century black morocco tooled in gilt, with a red morocco onlay in the center of each board bearing the initials E.G. (rebacked, new endleaves). London: for G. Calvert and T. Brewster 1661 £300 Wing P1699 (British Library & Dr Williams’s Library in UK; Boston Public Library, John Carter Brown Library [misreported, actually a 1st edn], Chicago, Harvard, Huntington, Minnesota in USA). Hugh Peter (1598-1660) was a radical independent minister who had been an army chaplain in the Low Countries and pastor at Rotterdam and minister at Salem in Massachusetts (1636-41). Back in England, initially as an agent for the Massachusetts government, as an army chaplain during the Civil War he campaigned actively for the execution of Charles I and became chaplain to the Commonwealth Council of State. On the Restoration he was exempted from royal pardon and was arrested on 31 August 1660 and imprisoned in the Tower where his daughter visited him daily. He was tried for sedition on 12 October and executed on the 16th. In his Last legacy Peter’s foremost concern is for the spiritual well-being of his daughter Elizabeth although he also takes the opportunity to offer the practical advice that she should “Hear the best men, keep the best company [and] read the best books” (A6v). The work ends with a poem to his daughter “My Wishes” and another “For England”. Elizabeth Peter married in 1665, lived in Deptford, had eight children and eventually inherited a farm in Massachusetts which the English authorities had been unable to confiscate. Provenance: Nathaniel Barnardiston, with contemporary inscription “Nathaniell Barnardiston His Booke” on the verso of the title (the surname damaged by the repair) and again on the final blank leaf “Nathaniell Barnardiston” on recto and “Nathaniell Barnardiston His Booke May the 21 Anno Domini 1662” within a decorative penwork border on the verso. Perhaps the Nathaniel Barnardiston (born after 1620 - d. between 1663 and 1707), of Hackney, 2nd son of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston, Kt. (1588-1653). The Barnardistons were a wealthy Suffolk Puritan family of politicians and merchants (see ODNB). MAGGS BROS LTD 145

[328] PETTUS (Sir John). Fodinæ Regales. Or the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and the English Pale in Ireland. As also of the Mint and Mony. With a Clavis Explaining some difficult Words relating to Mines, &c. First Edition. Small Folio. [16], 108, [8 (including errata leaf)] pp., engraved portrait of Pettus by Sherwin (dusty at head and tail and strengthened on the verso) and two rather amateur engraved plates (folded-in at lower edge), two circular engraved coats- of-arms in the text. Light browning and spotting throughout, several leaves partly uncut (B2 particularly short but original). Late 20th-century library binding of half calf and brown cloth boards. London: by H[enry]. L[loyd]. and R[obert]. B[attersby]. for Thomas Basset, 1670. £500 Wing P1908 (+;+). Pettus became a member of the Society of Mines Royal and Battery in 1651 and acted as deputy govenor of the royal mines until his death in 1685. Provenance: Contemporary initials “S.P.” in red on the title.

[329] PETTY (Sir William). A Discourse of Taxes and Contributions: Shewing the Nature and Measures of Crown- Lands, Assesments, Customs, Poll-Moneys, Lotteries, Benevolence, Penalties, Monopolies, Offices, Tythes, Hearth, Excise, &c. With several intersperst Discourses and Digressions concerning Wars, The Church, Universities, Rents and Purchases, Usury and Exchange, Banks and Lombards, [...] Liberty of Conscience, &c. The same being frequently applied to the State and Affairs of Ireland, and is now thought seasonable for the present affairs of England; humbly recommended to the present parliament. Fourth Edition, second issue. Small 4to., [10] 72 pp., lacking the preface (A2-A4). Browned throughout, with a small ink stain along the fore-margin, and with numerous repairs to the edges of a3, B1-B4 and C2. Modern green cloth boards (small stain on the upper board). London: for Edward Poole, 1689 £150 Wing P1920 (+;+). Keynes, Petty, 13. A reissue of the sheets of the 1685 edition. First published in 1662. Provenance: Cooper family of Markee Castle, Co. Sligo, Ireland, with Markree Library label (“re-arranged in 1913 by Bryan Cooper”)

[330] PHILIPS (Katherine). Poems by the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips the matchless Orinda. To which is added Monsieur Corneille’s Pompey & Horace, Tragedies. With severall other Translations out of French. First Authorised Edition. Small Folio., [36], 198, [8], 112 pp., without the final blank leaf; engraved portrait bust by William Faithorne (once backed with paper which has largely been removed, presumably to cover the early signature on the reverse, now partly legible). The portrait and probably the title (which is cleaner than the following leaf) may have been supplied (or washed) at the time of binding (early 18th-century). Lightly browned throughout with occasional foxing/spotting; stain in the inner margin from X-Qq (gets worse and extends into the text from Bb-Ii), lower blank outer corner of the final leaf torn away. Early 18th- century calf, later gilt tooling and label on the spine). London: by J[ohn]. M[acock]. for H. Herringman, 1667 £950 Wing P2033 (+;+). These poems of “the matchless Orinda” (as she styled herself) were published posthumously under the supervision of Sir Charles Cotterell, a prominent royalist and Master of the Ceremonies to both Charles I and Charles II. Previously published in 1664 (without the author’s consent), the publisher, Richard Marriot, withdrew it from sale after objections from Mrs. Philips “although afterward many of the books were privately sold”. This edition contains forty-seven more poems, besides the verse translation of Corneille’s Pompée which had been performed in Dublin in 1663. Provenance: Partly obscured early signature on the back of the portrait (which may have been supplied, but is visible under strong light: “Clement Hanby’s Booke” Two 18th-century signatures in the upper blank margin of the title-page of Thomas Cope and Mary Delamotraye. The flourish on the “T” of Thomas extends through the first line of the title. 146 MAGGS BROS LTD

[331] PHILLIPS (John). Maronides; or, Virgil Travesty, Being a New Paraphrase In Burlesque Verse, Upon the Fifth and Sixth Book of Virgil’s Æneids. By John Phillips Gent the Author of the Satyr against Hypocrites. Fourth Edition. 8vo. [2], 134 [i.e 152], 121 [i.e. 151], [1] pp., without the first blank leaf and eight leaves of advertisements at the end. Soiled and foxed throughout, small hole to the upper right corner of E1 (loss of page number), page edges frayed and thumbed. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep (binding worn, upper right corner gnawed away, head and foot of spine chipped with loss, joints cracked). London: for Obadiah Blagrave 1678 £200 Wing P2092 (Senate House Library in UK; National Library of Australia; Huntington, University of Chicago, Folger and Yale in USA). According to ESTC this edition is “a reissue, with new title page, of the 1672 and 1673 editions of book 5 and book 6 respectively”. This copy lacks the initial blank and final eight leaves of advertisements. Later edition of a verse parody of two books of the Aeneid by John Milton’s nephew. John Phillips (1631-1706), is chiefly known for his relation to Milton who assumed the responsibility for his education on the death of Phillips’ mother, Anne. “He also seems to have acted as Milton’s amanuensis in the early years of the poet’s blindness” (ODNB). Provenance: largely illegible signature, “Mar[?] Barker Sarah” to the front pastedown.

[332] PLAT (Sir Hugh). The Jewel House of Art and Nature: Containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with sundry new Experiments in the Art of Husbandry. With Divers Chimical Conclusions concerning the Art of Distillation, and the rare practices and uses thereof. Faithfully and familiarly set down, according to the Authours own experience. By Sir Hugh Plat of Lincolns Inne, Knight. Whereunto is added, a rare and excellent Discourse of Minerals, Stones, Gums, and Rosins; with the vertues and use thereof. By D. B. Gent. Second Edition. Small 4to., [8], 232 pp. Frst and last few leaves browned by the turn-ins, 25 x 10mm hole through the upper section of the title-page (removing a signature), small chip from the fore-margin of D4, large (75 x 25mm) blank piece torn away from the fore-margin of N3 (not touching text), small blank piece torn away from the corner of 2D2, short closed tears to the lower edge of H2-3, small rust hole in the inner margin of V1 and with a small hole in the blank corner of Y2. Contemporary sheep (spine and edges rubbed, lower headcap damaged, lower corners worn, front flyleaves largely cut-away, no pastedowns). London: by Bernard Alsop, 1653 £1100 Wing 2390 (+;+). Juel-Jensen (B.), “Sir Hugh Plat”, in The Book Collector, 1959, p.63, no.4. There is a variant issue with Elizabeth Alsop’s name in the imprint. The Jewel House, first published in 1594, is a “compendium of good advice on every conceivable topic” (Juel-Jensen), some of it frivolous (e.g. how to make an egg stand on its end without breaking it), some of it sensible and practical. Forty years after Plat’s death, it was rediscovered by the members of the Hartlib circle, who were particularly interested in its suggestions for improving crop-yield by means of artificial fertilizers. Plat had noted the growth of ears of barley up to 45 inches long after the use of soap-ash as a fertilizer on a farm in Middlesex in 1594. The result was this 1653 edition which forms an intriguing bridge between the medieval book-of-secrets tradition represented by Plat and the more modern approach of the Hartlib circle. The editor, Arnold Boate (1600-1653), was a Dutch polymath, a doctor of medicine, Biblical scholar and writer on natural history. In 1636 he went to Ireland as personal physician to the viceroy, Robert Sidney, Earl of Lecester. He subsequently became physician to Archbishop Ussher and Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford and surgeon-general for Ireland. He left Ireland in 1644. See: Bennett (J.) & Mandelbrote (S.), The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple, Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1998, no.64. Provenance: 1: Early signature on the title “Wm”, the surname cut-out. 2: James Gouge or Yonge, later signature at the head of the title. Old pencil note “Dupl[icate]” on the front flyleaf (half of which has been cut-away along with most of the conjugate leaf.

[333] PLOT (Robert). The Natural History of Oxford-Shire, being an Essay towards the Natural History of England. By R.P. LL.D. First Edition. Folio. [12], 358, [12] pp, with the imprimatur leaf and the errata leaf but without the final blank leaf, large engraved vignette of Athena with a view of Oxford in the background on the title, folding engraved map of Oxfordshire by Michael Burghers, and 16 engraved plates by Burghers. Imprimatur leaf lightly dampstained, title slightly dusty, small piece torn from the outer margin of R1, closed tear to the corner of Z4 (just touching one line of text), a squashed fly on p. 343. Contemporary mottled calf, MAGGS BROS LTD 147 covers panelled in gilt, early 19th-century gilt tooling and morocco label to the spine (covers slightly crazed by the mottling acid, joints rubbed, corners bumped and two knocks at the foot of the front cover, endleaves browned by the turn-ins). Oxford: at the Theater in Oxford , and are to be had there. And in London at Mr. S Millers, 1677 £800 Wing P2586 (+;+). Madan, Oxford Books, III, 3130. 750 copies were printed. Issue with Plot’s initials rather than full name on the title and note at the foot “The price in sheets at the Press, nine shillings. To Subscribers, eight shillings.” Plot was sufficiently inspired by Sir Francis Bacon’s Parasceve ad Historiam Naturalem (Preparative towards a Natural History), which stressed the importance of scientifically rigorous Natural History, to propose to John Fell at the Sheldonian Press a complete series of surveys of the natural characteristics and antiquities of England and Wales. Only two volumes were published (material for a further two was assembled). The first volume, was this, his Natural History of Oxfordshire (1677), which was well-received, and the second was on Staffordshire (1686). Provenance: 1: “J. Goddard”, early ink signature on the title. 2: Helyar family, of Coker Court, Somerset, with 19th-century bookplate.

[334] POETICAL MISCELLANY. Poems on Affairs of State, The Second Part. Written during the reign of K. James the II. against Popery and Slavery, and his Arbitrary Proceedings. By the most Eminent Wits, viz. Lord D[orse]t, Mr. Shadwell, the Hon. Mr. M[usgra]ve, Mr. Rymer, Sir F. Sh[era]rd, Mr. Drake, Coll. Titus, Mr. Gould, &c. Mr. Prior, now carefully corrected, and published from the originals. 8vo., [8], 224, [2], 20 pp. Piece torn away from the upper fore-corner of the second leaf (touching text on the verso), first gathering heavily damp stained and with some minor damp spots in the inner margin throughout. Contemporary sheep (headcaps damaged, joints and spine rubbed, corners worn, lower panel of the spine with an inverted manuscript paper label). London: in the Year 1697 £150 Wing P2720 (+;+). A reissue, with cancel title and a new preface, of The Muses Farewel to Popery and Slavery (1690). Provenance: Edward Owens, red ink ownership stamp repeated three times on the title-page and date 1782; a bookplate has also been removed from the front pastedown.

TEMPLE OF DEATH MISCELLANY [335] POETICAL MISCELLANY. A Collection of Poems written upon several Occasions by several Persons. With many Additions, Never before in Print. Second Edition. [6], 128, 185, [1] pp. Title page laid down and chipped and frayed at the edge, small hole to the middle of the title-page (touching two letters), numerous small repairs to the blank edges and corners throughout, some minor staining to the first few leaves, blank verso of final leaf soiled. 19th-century half calf and marbled boards (tightly rebound, spine slightly faded, calf a little scuffed), London: Printed for Tho[mas]. Collin and John Ford, 1673 £850 Wing C5178 (British Library, Bodley and Leeds University in UK; + in USA). Second edition of the famous “Temple of Death Miscellany”, one of the most important Restoration miscellanies, with poems by Etherege, Sedley, Mulgrave, Buckhurst and others. Provenance: 1: Loosely inserted is a manuscript extract from Philip Bliss’s edition of Athenae Oxoniensis relating to the authorship of the volume. 2: James Sullivan Starkey, 19th-century armorial bookplate.

WITH ALCHEMICAL ANNOTATIONS [336] POLEMAN or POLEMANN (Joachim). Novum Lumen Medicum; wherein the Excellent and most Necessary Doctrine of the highly-gifted Philosopher Helmont concerning the Great Mystery of the Pholosophers [sic] Sulphur. Is fundamentally cleared out of a faithful and good intent to those that are ignorant and straying from the truth, as also out of compassion to the sick. Written by the Authour in the German tongue, and now Englished by [Johann] F[ortitudo]. H[artprecht]. a German. First Edition in English. 8vo., [8], 206 pp. Margins of title-page soiled, damp-staining to upper inner corner of A1-B6, upper 148 MAGGS BROS LTD margin of D1-E1 and N1-O8, numerous small spots and stains. Contemporary sheep (covers rubbed and and scratched, one corner worn, head of spine worn). London: by J. C. for J. Crook,1662 £3000 Wing P2748 (British Library, Bodley, Glasgow, Wellcome Institute, Trinity College Dublin, and Dr. Williams’s Library in UK; Library of Congress only in USA). Only edition of an English translation (from the German edition printed at Amsterdam in 1659) of Poleman’s alchemical study, although ESTC notes “original title not traced”. Poleman was a philosopher and mystic in Amsterdam (and later in England), where he corresponded with Samuel Hartlib, who commented on the first edition in a letter of 17 May 1659 to Robert Boyle: “all in high Dutch, of a very fine and small character, pag. 82. opening the mystery of the Sulphura Philosophor. My son [Frederick Clodius] hath read it, and commends it as a most excellent piece for advancement and amendment of all medicinal knowledge: he counts also the whole treatise most worthy to be translated.” - Michael Hunter, ed, The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, (2001), I, p. 352 “Yet a length almost all do complain of the obscurity of those Books [by Van Helmont], especially in what concerns the preparation of those High Medicines, and above all touching the Tincture or Sulphur of Copper, which every one deemed, and deservedly too, of all the most necessary in Physick; Hence by many correspondencies, one Friend sought of another the clearing of this secret, and every one busied himelf extreamly for the getting of this golden Arcanum; of which disease I my self also lay sick a long time. ...” (p.2). This copy includes numerous contemporary annotations in ink and pencil. Often, as on pp. 78, 79, 144 and 156, they consist of alchemical symbols as well as cross-references to other relevant sections of Poleman’s text and apparently other texts as well. Provenance: Early faded ink inscription at the head of the dedication “Liber Richd. Pratt” and in the middle of the first page of text “Richd. Pratt”.

[337] PORTER (Thomas). The Carnival: a Comedy. As it was acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesties servants. First Edition. Small 4to., 68 pp., uncut at fore-edge and tail. Lightly browned throughout, damp-staining to the upper corner of A1-D4, some light foxing in places and with a dark rust mark on the final leaf. Mid-20th-century quarter calf and marbled boards. London: for Henry Herringman, 1664 £220 Wing P2988 (+;+). Pforzheimer 806. A notorious duelliest, Thomas Porter, son of the Hispanophile courtier Endymion Porter, wrote two plays: The Villain (1663), partly inspired by Othello, initially ran for ten days (a great success), was rapidly revived twice and “remained a favourite until the end of the century” (ODNB); The Carnival “testifies to the impact of the Spanish comedia on the early Restoration stage” (ODNB) and is set in Seville. Two other plays are more tentatively attributed to him. Provenance: “Ro: Mylne[r?]”, early signature on the title-page.

[338] [POWELL (Thomas)]. Humane Industry: Or, a History of most Manual Arts, deducing the Original, Progress, and Improvement of them. Furnished with variety of Instances and Examples, shewing forth the excellency of Humane Wit. First Edition. 8vo., [16], 188 pp., without the final two blank leaves. Title-page lightly stained, blank upper fore-corner of A6 torn- away, spot and a small hole just touching two letters on N5, a few page numbers slightly shaved. Contemporary sheep, red edges (rebacked, covers a little scuffed and with some minor insect damage, no pastedowns). London: for Henry Herringman, 1661 £1500 Wing P3072 (+;+). An unusual and engaging compendium of short accounts detailing various “manual arts” such as printing, painting, the production of glass, making music and the invention of clocks and watches. Powell’s work is notable for its scope and evocative use of language. In his description of the invention of clocks he begins “Time is the most precious commodity that man doth enjoy; because time past, cannot be revoked; and time lost, cannot be repaired” (1). In the chapter on printing he quotes a traveller describing the printing house of Christopher Plantin in Antwerp as the “octavum orbis miraculum, the eighth wonder of the world” and much as it is today (68). Often his evidence (almost all derived from published sources) can be questionable - such as the guitar playing baboon and the chess playing monkey - but these only add to the charm of Powell’s work. Little is known of Thomas Powell (ESTC gives his dates as 1608-1666), of Cantref; and he is not worthy of an ODNB entry, but he was a friend of the poet and writer Henry Vaughan, The Silurist (1621-95) and four Latin poems quoted in the text are accompanied by translations by Vaughan: Thomas Campion (“Times- Teller wrought into a little round”), Grotius (“The untired strength of never-ceasing motion”), Juvenal (“How oft have we beheld wilde Beasts appear”) and MAGGS BROS LTD 149

Martial (“That the fierce Pard doth at a beck”). The first three are identified by the initials “H.V.” in the margin and the last as having “the Translation of M. Hen. Vaughan Silurist, whose excellent Poems are publique”. Vaughan also contributed a Latin liminary poem to Powell’s treatise on optics, Elementa opticae (1651) and Powell addressed one to Vaughan and his brother Thomas in Vaughan’s Olor Iscanus (1651) where he describes himself as “Oxoniensis”. Provenance: “G R” very faint small blind-stamped initials on the front and rear covers near the fore-edges, perhaps a leather-maker’s stamp. 150 MAGGS BROS LTD

[339] PRODIGIES. Eniautos Terastios Mirabilis Annus, or the year of Prodigies and Wonders, being a faithful and impartial Collection of several signs that have been seen in the Heavens, in the Earth, and in the Waters according as they have been testified by very credible hands; all which have happened within the space of one year last past, and are now made publick for a seasonable warning to the people of these three Kingdoms speedily to repent and turn to the Lord whose hand is lifted up amongst us. Small 4to., [8], 24, 33-56, 49-64 pp. Dampstained throughout, first and final leaves dust-soiled, large piece torn away from the foot of B1 and B4 (just touching the catchwords and sidenotes and one word of text). Late 19th-century half black morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine (extremities rubbed, corners bumped). [London:] Printed in the Year 1661 £180 See Wing E3127 and E3127A; this copy has the pagination of E3127, but with the title page setting of E3127A (line 4 ends “Won-”) according to ESTC (but without the two leaves of plates found in E3127A; see the copy below). A collection of accounts of supposed prodigious omens from around the country, mostly recent (and no doubt related to the restoration of the Charles II) but some compared with parallel prodigies from earlier times. Provenance: 1: George Grant Francis (1814-1882), antiquary, armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Grant Francis helped to found the Royal Institution of South Wales in 1835 by presenting them with his collection of fossils, antiquities, coins and seals. 2: Pencil notes by JSC on the front pastedown stating that the copy is not imperfect and it was issued without gathering E (accounting for the unusual pagination) and also suggesting the author might be William Lilly.

[340] PRODIGIES. Eniautos Terastios Mirabilis Annus, or the Year of Prodigies and Wonders, being a faithful and impartial collection of severall signs that have been seen in the Heavens, in the Earth, and in the Waters; together with many remarkable Accidents and Judgments befalling divers Persons [...] Small 4to., [8], 88 pp., with two leaves of engraved plates depicting various prodigies described in the text bound before the title- page. Very lightly browned in places, small rust mark on K3-4, otherwise a very good copy. Late 19th-century ink annotation in the blank fore-margin of L2r. Mid- 20th-century blue morocco. [London:] Printed in the Year 1661 £900 Wing E3127A (+;+). Edition with “Won-” in line four of the title-page. [Bound with]: 1: Mirabilis Annus Secundus: Second Part of the Second Years Prodigies. Being a true additional collection of many strange signs and apparitions, which have this last year been seen in the Heavens, and in the Earth, and in the Waters. [London], 1662. First Edition. [8], 53, [1] pp. With the initial blank, A1, but lacking the terminal blank, H4. Two small holes to the initial blank, H1-H3 with old repair to the gutter with loss of a few letters to six lines of the recto and verso of H1, and two or three letters of the verso of H2 and the recto of H3. Wing M2204 (+;+). 2: Mirabilis Annus Secundus; or The Second Year of Prodigies [...]. [London], 1662. First Edition. [8], 84 pp. A few minor rust spots and a hole to the lower blank margin of B4 (no loss of text), and light dampstaining to the blank margin of gatherings E and F. Unrecorded edition. Wing M2205 (+,+) [8], 89 pp., whereas the present copy has [8], 84 pp. and has differing catchwords indicating that the text has been reset. 3: SPENCER (John). A Discourse concerning Prodigies: Wherein the Vanity of Presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated. [London]: by John Field for Will. Graves, 1663. First Edition. [12], 105, [5] pp. Some light soiling and staining throughout. Wing S4947 (+;+). Provenance: JSC’s pencil notes on the endleaves recording the various areas of local interest in each work.

[341] QUAKERS. BISHOP (George), & others. The Cry of Blood. And Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the Jews reconciled, and in conspiracy with the Dragon to devour the Manchild. Being a Declaration of the Lord arising in those people, of the City of Bristol, who are scornfully called Quakers, and of the manifold Sufferings, and Persecutions sustain’d by them from the Priests, Rulers, Professors and rude multitude, contrary to Law, Liberty, Justice, Government, the righteous ends of the Wars, and the Scriptures of Truth. [...] Gathered up, written in a Roll, and delivered to John Gunning late Mayor of that City (being the fruits of his Year) for the private Admonition, and Conviction of himself, and Brethren concern’d, and named therein: with a Letter declaring the end, and reason of what is so done, (of which a Copy followes in the ensuing pages) Subscribed by Geo: Bishop, MAGGS BROS LTD 151

Thomas Goldney, Henry Roe, Edw: Pyott, Dennis Hollister. And now after five months space of time Published, for the Reasons hereafter expressed. First Edition. Small 4to., [24], 143, [1] pp. Dampstained in the lower inner corner and browned throughout (heavily at the end), small closed tear to the fore-corner of D1 (not touching text) and with a paper flaw in the lower blank corner of Q1. Late 19th- century calf, covers ruled in gilt, marbled endleaves. London: for Giles Calvert,1656 £180 Wing B2990 (+ in UK; Harvard, Haverford College, Huntington, Library Company of Philadelphia, Michigan, Swarthmore College, Yale in USA). Only edition of an early Quaker tract (listed under George Bishop, (d. 1658, as the first signatory of the opening letter), which details the many protests for freedom of worship that often ended in violence and arrest. Provenance: Francis Frederick Fox, Bristol author and bibliophile, with 19th-century bookplate.

[342] QUAKERS. ECCLESTON (Theodor). A Brief Representation of the Quakers Case of Not-Swearing; and why they might have been, and yet may be Relieved therein, by Parliament. First Edition. Small 4to., 6, [2] pp., docket-title on the verso of A4. Browned throughout and folded twice, closely shaved throughout (cropping the pagination in the upper margin and the marginal note on A3r). Disbound, fomerly folded in four. [London: 1694/5] £120 Wing E141 (British Library, Bodley, Society of Friends [2 copies], Lincoln’s Inn in UK; Harvard, Haverford College, Union Theological Seminary in USA). Supports the Quakers refusal to swear oaths (they affirm instead) and calls for Parliament to protect them. Dated 22 December 1694. ESTC records another edition without Eccleston’s name (Society of Friends only). A facsimile reprint of this was published, but not widely distributed, by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1979.

PUBLISHED BY PRISONERS [343] QUAKERS. A Narrative of the Cruelties & Abuses acted by Isaac Dennis Keeper, his Wife and Servants, in the Prison of Newgate, in the City of Bristol: upon the People of the Lord in Scorn called Quakers, who were there Committed for the Exercise of their Consciences towards God. With an Account of the Eminent Judgments of God upon Him, and his End. Published for a warning to others, by some of those people who were sufferers under him. First Edition. Small 4to., 27, [1]. Small strip cut from the lower margin of the title-page (not affecting text) and A4 (just touching last line of text and with loss of catchword on the recto), lightly browned and some light foxing to the last two leaves. Early 20th- century half calf and marbled boards (lightly rubbed). [Colophon:] Published by the Sufferers themselves, from Newgate Prison in Bristol, the 6th of the 12th Moneth, 1683/4 [the little 3 has not printed] [London: 1683] £280 Wing N179 (British Library, Bristol Central Library, Society of Friends, Trinity College Dublin in UK & Ireland; + in USA). With “the wickedness and cruelties of the keeper growing to such a height” the Quakers petitioned the Magistrates of Bristol twice (the second time after the behavour continued) but to no avail. Resolution came when “it pleased the Lord to visit Isaac Dennis the Keeper with his judgments”. Accordingly Dennis died in great pain and in a state of unbelief and the anonymous author hopes that this narrative will induce others to “hear and fear the Living God, and not resist the Lord’s reproofs on their consciences” (26).

[344] QUARLES (Francis). Divine Fancies, digested into Epigrams, Meditations and Observations. The Seventh Edition, Corrected. 8vo., [24], 167 pp. Small dampstain to upper margin and very light foxing to title-page, large rust spot to centre of B2 and C2, dampstain in corner of D2-N2. Early 19th-century half russia and marbled boards (rebacked, boards soiled and corners worn). 152 MAGGS BROS LTD

London: by T[homas]. D[awks]. for John Williams, 1675 £120 Wing Q68 (British Library, Bodley, Christ’s College Cambridge & York Minster in UK; W.A. Clark, Columbia, Harvard, Huntington, and Illinois in USA). Horden, Quarles, IX.11 A collection of epigrams which defined Quarles’s reputation as an Anglican and royalist by attacking both puritans and papists (ODNB).

[345] QUARLES (Francis). Divine Poems, Containing the History of Jonah, Ester, Job, Sampson. Together with Sions Sonnets. Elegies.Written, and newly augumented. By Fra. Quarles. 8vo. [18], 471, [1]pp., engraved frontispiece/title with a passage describing “the mind of the frontispiece” on the preceding page. Front flyleaves, “Mind of the frontispiece” and engraved title and final leaf repaired and strengthened at the fore-edge. Later 20th- century calf. London: by E[dward].O[kes]. for B[enjamin].T[ooke]. and T[homas].S[awbridge]., and are to be sold by Will. Thackery, 1669 £180 Wing Q73 (+;+). Horden, Quarles, VII.7. First published in 1630, this is the seventh edition. Provenance: Various pen-trials on the front flyleaves, inc. “John barnard / of fallm[outh]; In / Cornwall” and “To James Edgcom Recd of Mr John Simons the sum of ten pounds ten shillings and seven pence being in all due depts [sic] and demand - I say Recd per me James Edgcom / John Symmons” - presumably of the Edgcumbe or Edgcombe family, later Earls of Mount Edgcombe, Cornwall. Ink purchase note on the title: “bought 20 August 1731. Cost 6: by Duncan Harvey”.

[346] QUARLES (John). Divine Meditations upon Several Subjects. Whereunto is annexed Gods Love, and Man’s Unworthiness. With several Divine Ejaculations. Third Edition. 8vo. [10], 16, 33-174, [2] pp., engraved portrait. Title roughly torn along the inner margin and mounted on a stub (with slight loss to the imprint), browned and foxed throughout (more so in the margins), corners of B8 and C1 bumped and with some light worming, scorchmark [45 x 25mm] to the centre of L2 (and with loss to the upper margin) also affecting L3. Contemporary sheep (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves). London: by T[homas]. J[ohnson]. for Peter Parker, 1671 £180 Wing Q124 (British Library & Bodley in UK; Folger, Huntington, Illinois, Library of Congress, Union Theological Seminary, Yale in USA). The Civil War interrupted Quarles’s academic career at Oxford and he was not awarded a degree, instead he served as a captain in the Royalist army. Quarles’s father was the notable poet Francis Quarles (1592-1644), and John followed in his footsteps, producing numerous popular works.

[347] QUEVEDO (Francisco de). STEVENS (John) translator. Fortune in her Wits, or, the Hour of all Men. Written in Spanish by the most Ingenious Don Francisco de Quivedo Villegas, Author of the Visions of Hell. Translated into English by Capt. John Stevens. First Edition in English. 8vo., [16], 131, [1] pp. With the first blank leaf. Minor worming to the inner margin of A1-A3 touching the printed border of the title-page and two letters of text on A3, small stain to the lower inner margin of D5-D6, a small ink stain to the blank lower margin of F3, early ownership inscription cropped from head of the title-page. 19th-century calf (corners bumped and chipped, joints rubbed). London: for R. Sare, F. Saunders, and Tho. Bennet, 1697 £350 Wing Q188 (+;+). First edition of a popular work that appeared in at least 7 editions before 1800. The work is a satirical attack on seventeenth-century Spanish politics disguised as a prose fantasy. John Stevens (c.1662-1726) “published over twenty translations, mainly from the Spanish, in addition to histories of Spain and Portugal and a painstakingly researched Spanish dictionary ... Though self-deprecating about his literary style, he produced a lively and successful translation of Quevedo’s comic satires ... The austere and devout Quevedo, champion of absolute monarchy, was his favourite writer, and in 1709 he recruited him to the tory cause by translating two of his political works in defence of Dr Henry Sacheverell” (ODNB). MAGGS BROS LTD 153

Provenance: 1: William Marrow, inscribed “WM: Marrow his booke 1720”, on the first blank and foot of the title-page. 2: Alicia Anne Shring, with inscription, “Alicia Anne Shring given her by her mother 1835” at the top of A2.

[348] “R-.” An Account of Spain: Being a New Description of that Country and People; and of the Sea Ports along the Mediterranean: of Ceuta, Tangier, &c. Written by a French Gentleman, who was in disguise aboard the English Fleet: with an Account of the most Remarkable Transactions of that Fleet. To which is added, a Large Preface concerning the Establishment of the Spanish crown, on the Duke of Anjou. First Edition. 8vo., [32], 192 pp. First few leaves and the verso of the final leaf a little foxed and browned, occasional spotting in places throughout, short worm-trail at the foot of E8-F3, the final three leaves and the rear flyleaves, rust-mark on I8, piece torn from the outer margin of K4-7. Contemporary calf, covers ruled with a single gilt fillet (joints rubbed and upper joint starting to split). London: for Joseph Wilde, 1700 £350 Wing A226C (Bodley and National Trust [Nostell Priory & Ickworth] in the UK; W.A. Clark, Folger, Illinois, Kansas & Tennessee in USA. The dedication to the Duke of Norfolk is signed “E.L.”. A variant (distinguished by ESTC) has the dedication signed “E. Lewis” and is equally scarce (British Library, Durham, Leeds; Boston Public Library, Duke, Huntington, New York Public Library). An anonymous account in the form of five letters from “R-” to his friend Brunet dated 4 Dec. 1694 (from Cadiz), 12 Jan. 1694/5 (no place), undated, 18 Sept. 1695 (from Cadiz) and 15 Jan. 1695/6 (from London) purporting to have been written “by a French Gentleman, who was in disguise aboard the English Fleet, that was sent to the Mediterranean toward the latter end of the last War” (A2). The first letter contains a long “story” or roman a clef (pp. 22-79) concerning the love of the Princess Nuberia for the General Saladine. Provenance: 1: M. Cowper, signature at the head of the title, probably Mary Clavering (1685-1734), 2nd wife of William Cowper (c.1665-1723), 1st Earl Cowper (cr. 1718), with his armorial bookplate.

[349] RABELAIS (François). URQUHART (Sir Thomas), translator. The Works of the famous Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick, treating of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel. To which is newly added the Life of the Author. Written Originally in French, and Translated into English by Sr Thomas Urchard Kt. [- The Second Book]. First Edition in English, second issue. 8vo., [24], 255, [1]; [14], 42, 49-221, [11] pp. Small rust spot on E8 and G1, small piece torn away from the fore-edge of M8 (not touching text), dark stain near the inner margin of D1, minor tear to the lower edge of [2] N7 (just touching the last line of text). lower edge of O2 uncut. Contemporary sheep, ruled in blind (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves). London: for R[ichard]. B[addeley]. and are to be sold by John Starkey, 1664 £950 Wing R103 (+,+). A reissue of the First and Second Books which were printed separately in 1653 (Wing R105 & 108) - the original 1653 titles are retained - with an additional general title dated 1664 and a 13-page life of Rabelais. Urquhart’s fame rests largely on this, his translation of Rabelais in which Urquhart “found a writer whose style and imagination matched his own” (ODNB). His translation of Book III appeared in 1693 with Books IV & V translated by Peter Motteux following in 1694. Provenance: James Chamberlayne, contemporary ink signature on the title.

[350] [RADCLIFFE (Alexander), attributed to]. Ovidius Exulans or Ovid Travestie. A Mock-Poem, on Five Epistles of Ovid viz, Dido to Ænæas Leander to Hero Laodameia to Protesilaus Hero to Leander Penelope to Ulysses In English Burlesque. By Naso Scarronomimus. First Edition. Small 8vo., [16], 86, [2 (advertisement for Thomas Rooks)] pp., engraved portrait bust of Ovid. Washed and pressed. Late 19th-century polished calf by F. Bedford, covers with a triple gilt fillet, gilt spine, marbled endleaves, gilt edges (joints rubbed). London: by Peter Lillicrap for Samuel Speed, 1673 £1100 Wing R128 (British Library, Bodley & Durham in UK; Harvard, Huntington, Newberry, Illinois & Yale in USA). The advertisement for books 154 MAGGS BROS LTD

published by Thomas Rooks also includes “Buckworth’s Lozenges which cures Colds & Catars” and “Turner’’s Dentifrices, which whiten the Teeth”. The 1676 edition is a reissue of this edition with a cancel title (Wing R128A Bodley & Yale only). Attributed by Wing & ESTC to the soldier-poet Alexander Radcliffe, but not the same as his Ovid Travestie (1680, and expanded edition, 1681) and this is probably an error - Stuart Gillespie & Robert Cummings, “A Bibliography of Ovidian Translations and Imitations in English” in Translation & Literature (13/2, 2004, pp. 207-18) list it as anonymous. In the preface the author states that he has published “more serious works, like Rabelais” than “this Ridiculus Pampolet” . Provenance: 1: W. E. Bools, of Enderby House, Clapham, London, sale Sotheby, 22/6/1903, 19/- to Pickering & Chatto, with their catalogue cutting tipped-in (price clipped). 2: George Thorn-Drury, sale, Sotheby, 15/6/1931, lot 1319, £5 to Maggs.

[351] RALEIGH (Sir Walter). Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations. By that Renowned and Learned Knight. Sir . Upon the first Invention of Shipping. The Misery of Invasive Warre. The Navy Royall and Sea-Service. With his Apologie for his voyage to Guiana. First Edition. Small 8vo. [10], 42, [2], 4 [64]; [2], 46; [2], 69 [1 (blank)] pp., engraved portrait, but without the four leaves of Moseley’s advertisements. Blank verso of engraved portrait and blank verso of the last leaf stained by the turn-ins and with the edges slightly chipped, Small (25mm x 15mm) repair to the foot of the title page (just touching the decorated border), minor closed tear in the lower inner margin of A1-2, dampstaining to the inner margins of G4-[2]C8 (touching text in places), small hole through [3]A3 (touching two lines of text), some occasional rust spotting. Mid-20th-century calf. London: by T.W[arren]. for Humphrey Moseley,1650 £350 Wing R170 (+;+). Pforzheimer 822. The first four items (including the Apologie for his [second and disastrious]Voyage to Guiana are here published for the first time. The last three parts have separate titles. Provenance: 1: Early inscription “John Spelman oweth this Booke” and signature “Robertus [?]Culsett” on the blank verso of the engraving (this has been deleted at a later date). 2: William Miller Ord (1834-1902), surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, with armorial bookplate (remounted on the front pastedown).

[352] RANDOLPH (Thomas). Poems, with the Muses Looking-Glasse, and Amyntas. [...] The third edition inlarged whereunto is added The Jealous Lovers. Third Edition. 8vo., [26], 134, [2], 83, [5], 101, [1]; [16], 88 pp. Title-page lightly soiled, some light soiling and staining throughout. Full modern calf. London: in the Yeer 1643 £250 Wing R241 (+;+). Poems was published posthumously by Randolph’s brother Robert. As well as containing Randolph’s own works it also features commendatory verse by ten other poets, such as Owen Felltham. The collection was much re-published with its strengths being its “epithalamia, love poems, and above all pastoral pieces” (ODNB). This collection was first published in 1638, but this edition, the third, is the first to include the play The Jealous Lovers. Gregg states that two editions of the play can be found in copies of Randolph’s Poems. The first, as in the present copy, has the imprint “printed by Roger Daniel printer to the University of Cambridge” and is dated 1640. Since the play was issued separately in 1640, this edition includes the unsold 1640 sheets. Provenance: 1: Tho[mas] Stringer, signature, dated 1678, on the flyleaf. 2: [K?] Stringer, signature dated 1693 on the second flyleaf. 3: JSC’s pencil annotations to the front pastedown.

[353] RANDOLPH (Thomas). Poems. With the Muses Looking Glasse. Amyntas. Jealous Lovers. Arystippus. The Fourth Edition Enlarged. Small 8vo., [28], 6, 6-18, 20-134; [2], 83, [5], 96, 98-101, [2], 16, 16-31, 31-42, [4]; [12], 92 pp., additional engraved title-page. Small stain at the head of the engraved title-page, paper flaw in the lower corner of [2]N1 (first leaf of text of “Aristippus” with the loss of four lines of text on the verso, upper corners of [2]C1-7 dampstained, rust spot at the head of I1, type ornament border of the title closely shaved and border of the subtitle to “Aristippus” slightly shaved. Early 19th-century calf, covers ruled in blind (front joint cracked, lower joint and headcaps rubbed, small hole in the spine). MAGGS BROS LTD 155

London: for F. Bowman, and are to be sold by William Roybould, 1652 £150 Wing R243 (+;+). Pforzheimer, 829. This copy has the cancelled title-page with the full printer’s name and address in the imprint. The title-page is preceded by an additional engraved title with “printed Oxford for Francis Powman” - according to Madan this title-page was prepared for the second edition of 1640, in subsequent editions the edition statement changed though place of publication and publisher’s name did not (Madan, III, 2672). The collation seems to differ slightly from the Pforzheimer copy in that gathering [2]A appears to contain six leaves rather than eight, the pagination remains the same. Provenance: 1: “Dorothy Howland”, contemporary signature and a crude ink drawing of a bird on the front flyleaf, another early signature of a lady, Mary [?] on the same leaf.

[354] RANDOLPH (Thomas). Poems with the Muses Looking-glass, and Amyntas: Whereunto is added, The Jealous Lovers. The Fifth Edition with several Additions, Corrected and Amended. “Fifth” [i.e. Sixth] Edition. Small 8vo., [28], 436 pp., with the half-title. Leaves A1-P8 lightly browned, small piece torn away from the blank corner of C4 and with a small closed tear to the lower margin of L4, some small spots, minor hole through P7 (touching text), and with sheet S closely trimmed (but with no loss of text). Early 20th-century calf, gilt spine by Birdsall & Son of Northampton (joints rubbed and slightly cracked at head and tail, some insect damage at the foot of the spine). Oxford: for F. Bowman, and are to be sold by John Crosley, 1668 £180 Wing R245 (+;+). Madan, Oxford Books, III, 2672, 2808. Greg, English Drama, II, 469(g), 547(f); III, p. 1104-1105. Edition without the colon after “Poems” in the title. A reprint by Henry Hall of Oxford (although the preliminaries and pp. 1-169 were set in London) of the 1664 London “fifth” edition, distinguished from the other “Oxford 1668” (“probably produced some years later and therefore surreptitious” - ESTC) by one of the London compositors’ use of an inverted comma instead of an apostrophe. Provenance: Ambrose Isted (1717-81), of Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire, armorial bookplate on verso of the title. Dr. Samuel Johnson and Thomas Percy visited Isted at Ecton in 1764.

[355] RAVENSCROFT (Edward). The London Cuckolds. A Comedy as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. Second Edition. Small 4to., [4], 47 [i.e. 74], [2] pp. Small damp-stain to the blank fore-margin throughout, closely cropped along the lower edge with occasional cropping of signatures. 20th-century half morocco and marbled boards. London: for Jos. Hindmarsh, 1688 £150 Wing R334 (+;+). First performed at Dorset Garden around November 1681, the play follows three old men who lock away their wives so that they can pursue their business in the city. ODNB states “All parts are one-dimensional, both sexes are ridiculed, and no morals are drawn. A romp replete with smutty dialogue and abundant consummations”. Provenance: Maggs Bros., (cat 1022 no.381) sold to JSC for £140, JSC notes on the front pastedown that the play was performed annually on the Lord Mayor’s Day.

A NEWCASTLE POET [356] RAWLET (John). Poetick miscellanies of Mr John Rawlet, B.D. And late Lecturer of S. Nicholas Church in the town and county of New-Castle upon Tine. First Edition. 8vo., [4], ii, [2], 143, [1] pp., engraved portrait of Rawlet by R. White (trimmed down and mounted at a later date), without the first blank leaf. Long crease with a very small closed tear (5mm) to the title-page, two ink spots on the recto of K4 (one just touching text), and with a small rust spot to O4. Modern half red morocco and cloth boards. London: for Samuel Tidmarsh, 1687 £320 156 MAGGS BROS LTD

Wing R358 (+;+). A posthumous collection of Rawlet’s poems selected by his friends. Rawlet’s most famous work was A dialogue betwixt two Protestants, in answer to a Popish catechism (1685) which appeared in numerous editions in the 17th and 18th centuries. The 20th edition (1696) claimed that 95,000 copies had been sold. Poetick miscellanies only ran to four editions.

[357] RAY (John). Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium: in qua exhibentur quotquot hactenus inventae sunt, quae vel sponte proveniunt, vel in agris feruntur; unà cum synonymis selectioribus, locis natalibus & observationibus quibusdam oppido raris. First Edition. 8vo., [30], 103, [1] pp., with Keynes’s corrected title-page “B”. Lightly browned throughout and with some spotting to D1-4 and L4. Contemporary limp vellum, painted green (the paint rubbing away, particularly on the spine). Cambridge: Excudebat Joann. Field; impensis Gulielmi Nealand, 1660 £575 Wing R383 (+;+), Keynes, Ray, no. 2. Ray’s “meticulous” catalogue of the plant life of Cambridgeshire. The work collects together over five hundred different species of plants which Ray had observed on his numerous walks around the Cambridge countryside, e.g. of Great Bindweed: “In many hedges, as in the privet hedge in the fellows garden in Trinity College”. Keynes notes that this was Ray’s “first essay in scientific botany” and that although it is “not without faults” it is still a “most remarkable achievement”. The original title-page was printed with two errors in the Latin; a second title-page was then printed on what was intended to be the initial blank. Copies of this work survive with either both or one of the title-pages (as in this copy).

“FROM HELL, HULL AND HALIFAX - DELIVER US” [358] RAY (John). A Collection of English Proverbs digested into a convenient Method for the speedy finding any one upon occasion; with Short Annotations. Whereunto are added Local Proverbs with their Explications, Old Proverbial Rhythmes, less known or Exotic Proverbial Sentences, and Scottish Proverbs. The Second Edition enlarged by the Addition of many hundred English, and an Appendix of Hebrew Proverbs, with Annotations and Parallels. Second Edition. 8vo., [8], 414, [2] pp. Light intermittent soiling and dampstaining throughout, blank margin of B5 soiled. 19th- century calf, ruled in blind (rebacked, new endpapers). Cambridge: by John Hayes, for W. Morden,1678 £300 Wing R387 (+;+). Keynes, Ray, no. 11. First published in 1670 the book comprises of hundreds of proverbs listed alphabetically, thematically, by region, country and occasion. The final section provides a list of Hebrew proverbs, “collected and communicated by my worthy friend Mr. Richard Kidder [1634-1703, bishop of Bath and Wells and a noted Hebraist and Old Testament scholar]”, printed in Hebrew type with an English translation below. Provenance: 18th-century ownership inscription, “James Nicol, Traquair Manse” [i.e. Traquair, Innerleithen, Peebleshire, Scotland] on the title.

[359] RAY (John). Synopsis Methodica Animalium Quadrupedum et Serpentini Generis. Vulgarium Notas Characteristicas, Rariorum Descriptiones integras exhibens: cum Historiis & Observationibus Anatomicis perquam curiosis. First Edition: 8vo. [16], 336, [8]., engraved portrait by William Elder after Faithorne. Sheets B-M are browned due to poor paper quality, all other sheets (A and N-Y2) are clean. Printer’s crease across the lower corner of p. 67 but no loss of text. Contemporary sprinkled calf (front cover detached, label missing). London: Impensis S. Smith & B. Walford, 1693 £220 Wing R405. (+;+). Keynes, Ray, no. 91 (“It is much more than the compilation its title seems to indicate, pages 1-61 being occupied by an essay, De Animalibus in Genere”). Provenance: Contemporary ink inscription “AAA 50” at the head of the title; inscription on the pastedown “E Libris Eduardi Nelthorpe ADni/ 1720”, probably of the family of bankers and merchants, baronets, originally from Hull, and on the flyleaf “E Libris G. D. Kent CCC Oxon”, George Davies Kent (1803-77), admitted to Corpus Christi Oxford June 1820 aged 17, scholar 1820-27, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, fellow 1827-49, rector of Stratford Tony, Wiltshire 1848-77. MAGGS BROS LTD 157

[360] RAY (John). The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, in Two Parts. Viz. The Heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals, (Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Insects) more particularly in the Body of the Earth, its Figure, Motion, and Consistency, and in the admirable Structure of the Bodies of Man, and other Animals, as also in their Generation, &c. The Second Edition, very much enlarged. Second Edition. 8vo., [32], 206, [2], 176 pp. Contemporary calf; covers panelled in gilt with a vase and flower tool in each corner, gilt spine with a red morocco label (corners worn, top corner of the lower cover chewed, area of surface insect damage at the foot of the lower cover). London: for Samuel Smith, 1692 £500 Wing R411 (+;+). Kaynes, Ray, no. 60. Provenance: John Morley, inscribed on the flyleaf: “The Gift Mrs Ray to John Morley July 31: 1707”. Ray himself had died two years earlier in 1705, and the donor would have been his wife Margaret Oakeley (c.1653-c.1727). Ray was born and buried at Black Notley, near Braintree, Essex. Morley may possibly be the John Morley (1656-1732), butcher and land-jobber, and agent for the Harley family, of nearby Halstead, Essex, friend of Pope, satirised by Swift, Gray and Prior (see ODNB). With two other signatures on the front pastedown. “Jane Dorothy Harvey 1849” and “C. H. Rikerman[?] 1885”.

[361] REA (John). Flora: seu de Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist. The second Impression Corrected, with many Additions, and several new Plates. In III. Books. Second Edition. Folio. [26], 231, [25] pp, with the leaf “The Mind of the Front”. Engraved title by D. Loggan and the eight plates containing sixteen designs for knot gardens. Lightly browned, upper margins dusty; worming close to the inner margin towards the top edge, extends throughout getting worse in the middle and then fanning out into a trail in the text; hole in Y1 (affecting two lines), closed tear on two of the plate leaves about 3cm long. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind (rebacked, lower corners repaired, upper corners worn, new endleaves, old flyleaves preserved). London: by T.N. for George Marriott, 1676 £500 Wing R422 (+;+). First published in 1665. John Rea lived at Kinlet, near Bewdley, Worcestershire, which he describes as “a , where it was my unhappiness to plant my stock”. He is reputed to have had the largest collections of tulips in England, and to have planned the gardens at Gerard’s Bromley, Staffordshire, the seat of Charles, 4th of Bromley, to whom this book is dedicated. Provenance: Engraved label inserted between pages 52 and 53 but formerly pasted to the old preserved front flyleaf: “Laura A[nne]. Calmady” (1820-1894), of Langdon Court, Devon; as children Laura and her sister Emily were painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). A manuscript note on the label dated 23 Oct. 1889 and states that the book was “bought from Wm Wade, who bought it at the sale of the Langdon books, by V. P. Calmady in 1876” [Vincent Pollexfen Calmady (1825-96), who sold Langdon Court which is now a hotel].

[362] RECORD (Robert). DEE (John) and Mellis (John) Records Arithmetick: or the Ground of Arts: teaching the perfect work and practice of Arithmetick, both in whole Numbers and Fractions, after a more easie and exact form then in former time hath been set forth: made by M. Robert Record, D. in physick. Afterward, augmented by M. John Dee. And since enlarged with a third part of Rules of Practice, abridged into a briefer method [...] with divers neccessary rules incident to the Trade of Merchandise: with Tables of the valuation of all Coyns, as they are currant at this present time, By John Mellis [...] 8vo., [24], 630 pp., numerous engraved tables and mathematical illustrations. Large dampstains to corners in places, a very small hole through 2N4 (just touching text); text-block starting to split in places. Contemporary sheep (spine rubbed and creased, corners slightly bumped). London: by J. Flesher, for John Harrison; and are to be sold by Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins, 1652 £650 Wing R643 (British Library, Bodley, Hunterian Museum Glasgow, National Library of Wales in UK; Brown University & Chicago in USA). Record’s much re-printed basic mathematical textbook, with the additional ‘tables of the valuation of all coyns’ by John Mellis. Basically unaltered from the 1618 edition. 158 MAGGS BROS LTD

Provenance: William Jones, inscription on the flyleaf “Wm Jones his Booke” followed by four lines of Welsh verse (“Nam blysia gwilia om gweli...”) with “witnessed by me John Davis 1716” and “W: Jones his Book Anno Domini 1718” on the front pastedown. Other early signatures Joseph Domnel, on title and “Edw: Wright”, early signature on B6r.

[363] RECORD (Robert). DEE (John) & MELLIS (John), editors. Records Arithmetick: or the Ground of Arts: teaching the perfect work and practice of Arithmetick, both in whole Numbers and Fractions, after a more easie and exact form then in former time hath been set forth: made by M. Robert Record, D. in Physick. Afterward, augmented by M. John Dee. And since enlarged with a third part of rules of practice, abridged into a briefer method than hath hitherto been published with divers neccessary rules incident to the trade of merchandise: with tables of the valuation of all coyns, as they are currant at this present time, By John Mellis. And now diligently perused, corrected, illustrated, and inlarged; [...] 8vo. [22] 536pp. Rust holes through E8, F8, 2A2, 2A5 and 2H4, ink blots on F2v and F3r, S1-T1 lightly browned and with occasional light damp staining along the fore-margins. Contemporary calf (surface cracking on the spine, area of surface insect damage on the lower cover, joints, corners and edges rubbed). London: by James Flesher, and are to be sold by Joseph Cranford, 1662 £600 Wing R646 (+ in UK; Chicago, Columbia, Folger, Illinois, Michigan in USA). Basically unaltered from the 1618 edition.

SLEEPING PROPHETS [364] A Relation of several Hundreds of Children & Others that Prophesie and Preach in their sleep, &c. First examined and admired by several Ingenious Men, Ministers and Professors of Philosophy at Geneva, and sent from thence in two Letters to Roterdam. First Edition. Small 4to., [4 (first leaf with imprimatur)], 35, [1] pp. Some light soiling to the first few leaves. Mid-20th-century half blue morocco and marbled boards by William Matthews for Maggs. London: for Richard Baldwin, 1689 £180 Wing R808 (+;+). The work consists of extracts from letters and journals that describe the “sleeping prophets”, Huguenot followers of the shepherdess Isabeau Vincent. The visions occur suddenly, causing the individual “to fall down as if he was taken with the falling sickness, and there lie sprawling upon snow that is two foot deep upon ground, till such time as some one lifts him up, and sets him upon his breech; then with his eyes shut, as a man that that sleeps, fall a preaching and prophesying” (3).

[365] RIDPATH (George). The Stage Condemn’d, and the Encouragement given to the Immoralities and Profaneness of the Theatre, by the English Schools, Universities and Pulpits, Censur’d. King Charles I. Sundays Mask and Declaration for Sports and Pastimes on the Sabbath, largely Related and Animadverted upon. The Arguments of all the Authors that have Writ in Defence of the Stage against Mr. Collier, Consider’d.[...] And remarks on diverse late Plays, as also on those presented by the two Universities to King Charles I. First Edition. 8vo. [8], 216 pp. Foxed and browned throughout, heavily in places, and dampstained at the end. Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked, leather crackled by damp, corners repaired, new endleaves). London: for John Salusbury, 1698 £220 Wing R1468 (+;+) Written in support of Jeremy Collier’s Short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage. Ridpath calls for strict regulation of the English stage because it has become “so much corrupted as its advocates themselves are forc’d to confess, its influence upon the morals of the audience must needs be dangerous and therefore its hop’d our English senators will be as careful of the Chastity of the English ladies, as the Antient Roman Senators were of theirs ...” [p. 6-7]. Provenance: 1: “E libris Ge[o]r[ge] Luke pr 0£-2s-6d”, contemporary acquisition note to the head of the title-page. MAGGS BROS LTD 159

[366] ROBINSON (John). An Account of Sueden: Together with an Extract of the History of the Kingdom. First Edition. 8vo., [12], 196 pp., initial leaf with half-title on recto and advertisement on verso. A1-4 browned, E8-8 and O1-2 browned and spotted, small semi-circular chip from the fore-edge of the front flyleaf. Contemporary sprinkled calf; spine with a gilt thistle crest in the fourth panel and a gilt shelf mark in the final one (covers detached, edges and corners worn, headcaps torn away and with a small white splash of paint on the upper board). London: Tim. Goodwin, 1694 £100 Wing R1690 (+;+). This first edition was published without the author’s consent, and led Robinson to fear that his frank depiction of Sweden might damage his diplomatic relationships in the country; his fears were allayed and he was promoted by William III whilst continuing to be welcomed into the Swedish court. Further editions appeared in 1711 and 1717. Provenance: 1: Rev. Kene Percival, D.D. (1709?-74?), Vicar of Powerscourt and Castle Knock 1764-74, eldest son of Rev. William Percival, Archdeacon of Cashel, with his gilt thistle crest on the spine and shelfmark on the title. 2: S or J. Foley, signature on the flyleaf.

[367] ROCHESTER (John Wilmot, Earl of). Poems, (&c.) On Several Occasions: With Valentinian; a Tragedy. 8vo., [10], xv, [7], 208, 177-224 pp. Slightly dusty in places; very small worm-trail in the lower inner margin of the final few leaves. Contemporary plain mottled calf, covers ruled in blind (joints rubbed, stain on the rear endleaves). London: for Jacon Tonson, 1696 £750 Wing R1757 (+;+). A reprint of the 1691 edition.

[368] ROGERS T[homas]. A Posie for Lovers: Or the Terrestrial Venus Unmaskt. In Four Poems, viz I. The Tempest, or Enchanting Lady. II. The Luscious Pennance, or the Fasting Lady. III. The Feign’d Innocence, or the Jealous and Whining Lady. IV. To an Old Gamesome Madam, who Twittingly askt the Author, when he design’d to settle in the World. First Edition. Small 4to., [4], 23, [1] pp. Title-page and verso of final leaf lightly soiled and with a number of uncut edges. Early 20th-century half calf and marbled boards. London: for Thomas Speed, 1694 £1250 Wing R1842E (British Library, Bodley, Mitchell Library & Sheffield University in UK; Amherst College, W.A. Clark, Folger, Harvard, Huntington, Illinois & Yale in USA). Published anonymously, as “Musophilus”, but attributed to the clergyman Thomas Rogers who produced works in poetry and prose on a number of subjects. This publication is dedicated to the “little crooked yet sweet and lovely Rosania” who Rogers attempts to educate so that she “glitters in her native innocence and charms”(A2v). Provenance: JSC’s “Cx” cipher pencilled on the front pastedown along with notes attributing the work to Rogers and a price of £10-10-0.

[369] RUSDEN (Moses). A Further Discovery of Bees. Treating of the Nature, Government, Generation & Preservation of the Bee. With the Experiments and Improvements arising from the keeping them in transparent Boxes, instead of Straw-hives. Also proper Directions (to all such as keep Bees) as well to prevent their robbing in Straw-hives, as their killing in the Colonies. By Moses Rusden, an Apothecary; Bee-Master to the King’s most excellent Majesty. Published by his Majesties especial command, and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham Coll. First Edition. 8vo., [24], 143, [1] pp., engraved frontispiece (“Henry Million delin. pro Authore Mose Rushden”) and three folding plates (the outer inch of the first plate is missing where it would have been folded-in, with loss to the image). Some heavy browning and spotting, stronger in the margins, short (25mm) closed tear to the fore-margin of C5 (just touching text), frontispiece and the first plate heavily browned. Contemporary sheep (rebacked, large areas of insect damage to the covers, corners worn, old reback wearing again with an area of insect damage at the foot). 160 MAGGS BROS LTD

London: for the author, and by Henry Million, 1679 £300 Wing R2313 (+;+). Rusden was made Bee-Master to Charles II at the suggestion of John Evelyn. This book acknowledges the patent secured by the apiculturist John Gedde for his new style of bee-hive which allowed the honeycomb to be detached without disturbing the colony (see ODNB for Gedde). The date in the imprint has been deliberately damaged and the third digit is obscured; an early hand has provided the year 1689. Reissued as A Full Discovery of Bees in 1685 (Wing R2312, British Library and W.A. Clark only) and 1687 (Wing R2312A, Yale only).

[370] RUTHERFORD (Samuel). Joshua Redivivus, or Mr Rutherfoord’s Letters, divided in two parts. The first containing these which were from Aberdeen [...] the second, containing, some which were written from Anwoth [...] now published, for the use of all the people of God; but more particularly, for these who now are, or afterward may be put to suffering for Christ & his cause; by a wellwisher to the work, & people of God. First Edition. 8vo., [48], 450, 453-576 pp. [leaf Ff2 (pp. 451-2 is cancelled as usual but not noted by ESTC]. Some occasional light damp-staining to A4, A8v, M2, 2D1-2D2, larger ink blots on c8, A4, A6, and C1-2, and a very small hole through V1 (touching text on verso). Late 19th-century “Presbyterian blue” morocco by Riviere & Son, panelled and lettered in gilt, with gilt gauffered edges, contemporary flyleaves and the “Dutch-gilt” pastedowns preserved from the original binding. [Rotterdam:] in the Yeer 1664 £500 Wing R2381 (+;+). Cancel slip pasted on the first two lines of Ll1r but with no cancel slip over the original errata on c8 as sometimes found. “Rutherford’s posthumous reputation rested on his letters, which were first published in the Netherlands in 1664, and quickly became a classic of evangelical protestant piety. They were lavishly praised by Richard Baxter and Charles Spurgeon, and were republished no fewer than eighty times in various English editions, and at least fifteen times in Dutch. Rutherford became known as the Saint of the Covenant, and devout evangelicals even made pilgrimages to Anwoth. Meanwhile, Rutherford’s controversial writings gathered dust and were largely forgotten.” - ODNB. Provenance: 1: “Mrs Anna Montgomerie Her Boooke”, elaborate 17th-century calligraphic inscription on the rear flyleaf. 2: A long list of numbers of letters is written in ink on the front flyleaf, one with the date “13 Novr: 1715” and most of the corresponding letters are marked with a series of stars, crosses and dots in the margin. 3: John Whitefoord Mackenzie, mid-19th-century bookplate. 4: Ink purchase note on the flyleaf: “[18]/86 from Whitefoord Mackenzie Library 8/- afterwards rebound by Riviere / 1888 in Presbyterian blue £1 - The original insides of the old binding are preserved”.

[371] RYMER (Thomas). The Tragedies of the last Age Consider’d and Examin’d by the Practice of the Ancients, and by the Common sense of all the Ages. In a letter to Fleetwood Shepheard, Esq. First Edition. 8vo., [16], 144 pp. A1-4 lightly foxed, short tear at the foot of the title, small stains to corner of C5-6, rust spot to E8, F4, leaves K4-8 heavily foxed, and with a 45 x 25mm piece cut from the flyleaf (probably to remove an earlier signature). Early 19th-century half calf and marbled boards (rubbed, corners bumped). London: for Richard Tonson, 1678. £180 Wing R2430 (+;+). In this, his first major work of criticism, Rymer hostilely criticises three plays by Beaumont & Fletcher, Rollo, King or no King and The Maid’s Tragedy. He bemoans the corruption of the high standards set by the classical tragedians and dislikes the modern way of adapting or totally changing an ancient story or myth purely for dramatic effect, and writing plays to entertain people rather than improve them. He was answered by Dryden in the preface to All for Love.

[372] SALMON (William). Seplasium. The Compleat English Physician: or, the Druggist’s Shop Opened. Explicating all the Particulars of which Medicines at this day are composed and made. Shewing their various Names and Natures, their several Preparations, Virtues, Uses, and Doses, as they are applicable to the whole Art of Physick, and containing above 600 Chymical processes. A work of exceeding Use to all sorts of Men, of what Quality or Profession soever. The like not hitherto extant. In X Books. First Edition. 8vo., [70 of 72], 1207, [1] pp., with the half-title and errata/advertisement leaf (a3) and a4 with a table on verso that MAGGS BROS LTD 161 is meant as a slip cancel for the table on X8v bound after X8. Small hole through the centre of Z1 (damaging two lines), a 19th- century paper slip tipped-in between Ee2-3 (obscuring a small portion of the text on the first 13 lines), rust spots on Gg1-3, fore- corner of Ooo4 folded-in, small rust spot on Ffff4. Contemporary calf (front joint and spine repaired, 19th-century endleaves). London: for Matthew Gilliflower, and George Sawbridge, 1693 £650 Wing S452 (+;+). Seplasium is first and foremost a vast compendium of medicinal recipes, however Salmon is quick to point out on the verso of the half-title that the work also contains a vast number of other, non-medical, entries including the natural history of stones, beasts and birds, a “new art of brewing”, a treatise on gunpowder and the art of extracting “phosphorus out of urine”. It also includes many of his recipes for art materials such as “Black Japan Varnish”, “all Indian Varnishings and Lackerings”, such as are all found in his much-reprinted Polygraphice (1672). “Salmon drew most of the information he incorporated into his writings from his extensive personal library. Indeed there is little evidence that he made any original contribution to medical knowledge. Salmon also created a cabinet of curiosities that included some items he brought back from his travels to the West Indies. He owned several Dutch paintings, two microscopes, and many mathematical and natural philosophical instruments [...]” (ODNB). Provenance: “R. L. Carr ex donis C. C. Cocks”, old ink signature on the title-page.

[373] SALTMARSH (John). Perfume against the sulpherous stinke of the Snuffe of the Light for Smoak, called Novello-Mastix. With a Check to Cerberus Diabolus, and a whip for his barking against the Parliament and the Armie. And an answer to the Anti-Quaeries, annexed to the Light against the Smoak of the Temple. First Edition. Small 4to., 8 pp. Small defect from a paper fault in the lower fore-corner of the title (touching the type-ornament border). Disbound, uncut. London: by Elizabeth Purslow, April, 19. 1646 £200 Wing S495 (+ in UK; Brown, Huntington and Union Theological Seminary in USA). A reply by the radical vicar of Brasted in Kent and republican army chaplain to ’s Novello-mastix or a scourge for a scurrilous news-monger which was appended to his Light for Smoake (1646), itself a reply to Saltmarsh’s The Smoke in the Temple (1646).

[374] SARBIEWSKI (Maciej Kazimierz, S.J.). Mathiæ Casimiri Sarbievii Lyricorum Libri IV. Epodon liber unus, alterque Epigrammatum. Adjicitur Epicitharisma sive eruditorum virorum e Societate Jesu in authorem poemata. 12mo., 239 pp. Fore-margin of A1-4 (and second fly-leaf) dampstained and slightly ragged. Contemporary calf, ruled in blind with a small tool in each corner (front joint rubbed). Cambridge: Richard Green, 1684 £120 Wing C1213 (+;+). First edition of the original Latin printed in England; a translation by G. Hills was published in 1646. Sarbiewski (1595-1640) was the first Polish poet to attain major fame throughout Europe and was crowned poet laureate by Pope Urban VIII and his works were widely and frequently reprinted and used in schools and universities.. Provenance: John Loveday (1711-1789), antiquary and traveller, with signature on the pastedown “E Libris J: Loveday. Feb. 10: 1759”; by descent in the Loveday family at Williamscote, Banbury, Oxfordshire, until the 1960s.

[375] SELDEN (John). The Priviledges of the Baronage of England, when they sit in Parliament. Collected (and of late revised) by John Selden of the Inner Temple esquire out of the Parliament rolles and journalls [...] First Edition. Small 8vo., [6], 167, [1] pp., without the first blank leaf. Dampstained and browned throughout, shaved at the head (with some loss to page numbers). Late 19th-century vellum (label missing). London: by T. Badger for Matthew Wallbanck, 1642 £120 Wing S2434 (+;+). Selden provides precedents for the right of the House of Lords, upon an accusation of the Commons, to order the impeachment of an individual. It was drawn 162 MAGGS BROS LTD

up after the 1621 Parliament which had moved against the monopolist Sir Giles Mompesson but was not published until 1642. Provenance: Charles Edward Doble (d. 1914), of , literary editor, with bookplate.

[376] SELDEN (John). Table-Talk: being the discourses of John Selden Esq. or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to religion and state. First Edition. Small 4to., [4], 60 pp. Browned throughout, damp-stain to fore-margin of [A]4 and D1, very small rust-hole through the inner margin of C3, foxing to edges of H3-4, lower corner of the last leaf torn-away (just touching two letters), some lower edges uncut. Mid 20th-century half calf and marbled boards. London: for E. Smith,1689 £400 Wing S2437 (+;+). First edition of the celebrated collection of snatches of Selden’s conversation during the last twenty years of his life. It was published thirty-five years after his death and nine years after the death of the compiler Robert Milward, Selden’s amanuensis. Under the title “Books, Authors”, Selden gives his famous advice for dealing with booksellers, “The giving a Bookseller his price for his Books has this advantage, he that will do so, shall have the refusal of whatsoever comes to his hand, and so by that means get many things, which otherwise he never should have seen. So ’tis in giving a Bawd her price.” (p. 9). Selden also muses on the church, the king, war, witches, tradition and the pope. “The work is valuable, not only for its occasional illustrations of passages in Selden’s published works, but especially as revealing his cool judgement and mordant wit on many contemporary concerns. As such it has always enjoyed a deserved popularity among both critics and the reading public, evidenced by the numerous reprints of the past 300 years.” - G.J. Toomer, John Selden: a life in scholarship, (Oxford, 2009), II, p. 594. Provenance: extensively annotated on the title-page, dedication and contents page (A1-A3) in early shorthand (slightly cropped) but it does not seem to relate to the text.

[377] SELDEN (John). Theanthropos: or, God made Man. A tract proving the nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25. December. First Edition. 8vo., [8], 191, [21 (advertisements for Brooks)] pp., engraved portrait by I. Chantry. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, gilt spine with a red morocco label (inside joints broken, spine defective at the head and tail, covers rubbed, pastedowns unstuck, the flyleaves include waste from a 12mo edition of Cicero). London: by J.G. for Nathaniel Brooks, 1661 £160 Wing S2439 (+;+). Following the publication of Historie of Tithes (1618), Selden was summoned to see King James. “In mid-December 1618, accompanied by his friends Edward Heyward and Ben Jonson, he travelled to Theobalds, where he had two interviews with the king. James rebuked him for the publication, but also took pleasure in displaying his own learning by questioning him about passages in the book. As a result of this, Selden promised (and soon delivered to the king’s hands), palinodes on three topics which had come up incidentally in Historie of Tithes: on the number 666 in the Book of Revelation, on Calvin’s opinion of that book, and that Christ’s birthday was 25 December. Only the last is of any substance, and we may doubt whether Selden believed his own arguments, for he never published it.” - G.J. Toomer, John Selden: a life in Scholarship (Oxford, 2009), I, p. 306. This edition appeared posthumously with an address to the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple by “G.J.”. Provenance: John, 1st (& last) Baron Rolle of Stevenstone (1750-1842), politician, of Bicton, Exeter, with bookplate and signature “Rolle”.

[378] The Session of the Poets, holden at the foot of Parnassus-Hill, July the 9th. 1696. First Edition. 8vo., [2], 49, [1] pp., uncut, engraved frontispiece depicting three poets at the bar before Apollo. Margins a little dusty, some creasing to the edges, small piece torn away from the lower corner of D1. Unsophisticated copy, sewn as issued in the original pale blue paper wrappers (wrappers creased, a short tear at the head and a little stained, the original stitching partly loose). London: for E[lizabeth]. Whitlock, 1696 £1500 Wing S2646A (British Library only in UK; Harvard, Folger, Illinois & Yale in USA). MAGGS BROS LTD 163

A prose satire in which a number of contemporary poets and playwrights are placed on trial by the Muses. They are identified by their initials only: T.B. (Thomas Brown), T.D. (Thomas Durfey), E.S. (Elkanah Settle), E.R. (Edward Ravenscroft), P.M. (Peter Motteux), A.O. (unidentified by us) D.M. (Delarivier Manley) MP (Mary Pix).All are found guilty and given suitably satirical sentences, e.g. Mary Pix’s sentence is “that she shall be desperately in Love with several Persons, but not one of them shall regard but despise and laugh at her Passion.”

[379] SETTLE (Elkanah). The New Athenian Comedy, containing the Politicks, OEconomicks, Tacticks, Crypticks, Apocalypticks, Stypticks, Scepticks, Pneumaticks, Theologicks, Poeticks, Mathematicks, Sophisticks, Pragmaticks, Dogmaticks, &c. Of that most Learned Society,. First Edition. Small 4to., [8], 28 pp. Browned throughout, author’s name written in pencil on the title-page. Late 19th-century half morocco and marbled boards by Kerr and Richardson (head and foot of spine chipped, front joint lightly chipped). London: for Campanella Restio, 1693 £250 Wing S2701 (British Library, Bodley, Guildhall, Victoria & Albert Museum [Dyce Collection] in UK; + in USA). The New Athenian Comedy was Elkanah Settle’s first attempt at drama. However it appears that it was never performed. It is the scarcest of his plays. Settle (1648-1724) “a central figure in the Restoration theatre” (ODNB), whose “talent for producing spectacular and elaborately staged plays ... [was] particularly well suited to the contemporary vogue for heroic and operatic drama” (ibid). Provenance: James Bell, 20th-century signature to the front free endpaper.

[380] SHANNON (Francis, Viscount). Discourses useful for the Vain Modish Ladies and their Gallants, under these following Heads, viz.I. Of some of the Common Ways many Vertuous Women take to lose their Reputation, &c. II. Of meer Beauty-Love, &c. [...] XII. Of the French Fashions and Dresses, &c. XIII. Of Worldly Praises which all Ladies love to receive, but few strive to deserve. XIV. Useful Advices to the vain modish Ladies, for the well regulating their Beauty and Lives. [Bound after: Essays and Discourses, Moral and Divine, upon Several Subjects, viz. I. Of a Pious, Retir’d, Contemplative Life, and the Inconstancies of a Court one. [...] XII. The severe Censures most publick Writers are Exposed to.] Second Edition. 8vo., [2], 215, [1 (advertisement for three works by Robert Boyle)]; [18 (Epistle Dedicatory)], [4 (list of contents for both parts), 60, 199, [1 (blank) pp.; lacking the combined general title-page Discourses and Essays useful for the Vain Modish Ladies and their Gallnats ... The Second Edition, with New Additions. Old ink stain along the lower edge of D5 and the centre of B1. Contemporary mottled calf (corners bumped and spine split). London: for J. Taylor, 1696 £750 Wing S2963 (British Library, National Library of Ireland in UK & Ireland; W.A. Clark, Harvard, Illinois, Library of Congress, Newberry Library in USA). First published in 1689 as Several Discourses and Characters address’d to the Ladies of the Age; the first two essays are added to this edition. The two parts are usually bound in reverse - the second part here, Discourses useful, having the general dedicatory epistle and the combined list of contents. The Essays and Discourses was first published in 1690 (Wing S2965). This edition of Discourses useful is also listed separately as Wing S2963A (+; Folger, Huntington, Yale).

[381] SHARROCK (Robert). The History of the Propagation & Improvement of Vegetables by the concurrence of Art and Nature: Shewing the several ways for the Propagation of Plants usually cultivated in England, as they are increased by Seed, Off-sets, Suckers, Truncheons, Cuttings, Slips, Laying, Circumposition, the several ways of Graftings and Innoculations; as likewise the methods for Improvement and best Culture of Field, Orchard, and Garden Plants, […] Written according to observations made from experience and practice: by Robert Sharrock, Fellow of New Colledge. First Edition. Small 8vo., [18], 1-16 [4] 17-34, 34-63, 65-150, [2] pp., with the two additional illustrated leaves and the advertisement at the end. Very light inky thumb-prints on the title-page, very occasional minor rust-spotting, endleaves stained by the turn-ins. Early 20th-century calf. Oxford: by A. Lichfield, for Tho: Robinson, 1660 £700 164 MAGGS BROS LTD

Wing S3010 (+;+). Madan, Oxford Books, III, 2528. Robert Sharrock (1630-84) graduated from New College, Oxford in May 1661, before entering the church, and finally being appointed archdeacon of Winchester in the year of his death. Wood records that he was “accounted learned in divinity, in the civil and common law, and very knowing in vegetables, and all pertaining thereunto”. This, his first published work, was dedicated to Robert Boyle. Sharrock subsequently oversaw some of Boyle’s publications in the press at Oxford and supplied prefaces to three of his physical treatises John Evelyn does not refer to Sharrock in his Diary but he refers to this work several times in his manuscript Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens, only published in 2001 (ed. John E. Ingram) and noted a number of passages that should be cut-and-pasted (with acknowledgement) into his text. The note to the binder states that the illustrative leaves should be bound “at the 60th page”, this has been altered by hand to “70th” but they have in fact been bound after p.16. ESTC record that copies are found with the leaves bound in various different places. Provenance: JSC’s bookplate.

“WHAT! WRITE AS FAST AS SPEAK! TUSH, TUSH IT CANNOT BE...” [382] SHELTON (Thomas). Tachygraphy. The most Exact & Compendious Method of Short and Swift Writing, that hath ever yet been Published by any. Approved by both the Universities. Small 8vo., [12], 43, [1] pp., additional engraved architectural title (“...Newly Corrected & Enlarged”), pagination includes 9 pages of engraved examples, with a final engraved page with Shelton’s arms and the Creed and Ten Commandments in shorthand. Engraved title frayed at the head and repaired (touching the frame) and shaved at the foot affecting the second line of the imprint; a small pin-hole through the centre of the first 15 leaves, letterpress title dampstained in upper inner margin, a little soiled throughout and with margins closely trimmed in places. Mid 20th-century half calf and marbled boards. London: by Thomas Milbourn, for Dorman Newman, 1693 £350 Wing S3085 (British Library, Manchester Central Library, Senate House Library in UK; Huntington, New York Public Library & Yale in USA). Shelton’s work on shorthand (Short writing) was probably published in the 1620s, but no copy survives and the earliest surviving edition dates from 1630. The revised work under this title Tachygraphy was first printed in Cambridge in 1635, and, although not without its drawbacks, had an enormous success, not least with its most famous user, Samuel Pepys. It was many times reprinted up to the early years of the 18th century. See: R.C. Alston A bibliography of the English language, Vol. 8 (Treatises on shorthand), pp.8-14, 18-19; for a survey of Pepys’s use of Shelton’s system see the introduction to to the Latham & Mathews edition of the Diary vol. 1 pp.xlvii-liv. Provenance: 1: Edmund Herbert, early signature on the title. 2: Ink monogram ?”BCEHT”on the title, A3 and D4.

[383] SHIERS (William). A Familiar Discourse or Dialogue concerning the Mine-Adventure. First Edition. 8vo., [16], 4 [two folio leaves, folded, “An Abstract of the Present State of the Mines of Bwlchyr-Eskir-Hyr”], 160, 15 [“The second abstract”] pp. Light damp staining to the fore-margins, tables spotted, first one torn affecting five lines of text, book-block split, pastedowns detached. Contemporary sheep, panelled in blind, spine split, with a contemporary paper label shelf- mark (spine worn and torn at the foot, sewing broken, coming loose in the case, endleaves unstuck). London: in the Year 1700 £700 Wing S3458 (+;+). A dialogue between two noble Lords, a Doctor of Divinity, and a merchant concerning mining but in fact a prospectus for the Corporation of the Mine Adventurers of England with much information on mining techniques. “[Sir Humphrey] Mackworth’s Cardiganshire associations were strengthened when he joined the Company of Mine Adventurers of England at Esgair Hir and other mines, extracting and smelting lead, silver, and copper. The concern had become moribund but through its manager, William Waller, Mackworth was persuaded to buy out the share of Edward Pryse of Gogerddan, which, paid by instalments, eventually totalled £16,440 13s. 10d. by 1703. He recapitalized the concern by raising new funds, up to £125,000, from a lottery share arrangement. The company was incorporated in October 1698, with Mackworth becoming deputy governor for life. Several of his Neath agents were employed with Waller, and the Mine Adventurers leased Mackworth’s smelter. Mackworth invested £16,900 at Neath between 1698 and 1708, integrating mining, refining, and casting activities, manufacturing chemicals, and improving dock facilities. MAGGS BROS LTD 165

“After 1705 the Mine Adventurers were overtaken by production and cash-flow problems which Mackworth tried to resolve by dubious share launches and unbacked bills, as well as by expanding into Flintshire. A directors’ investigation into mismanagement in 1708-9 led to Waller’s dismissal, and bankruptcy proceedings against Mackworth ensued in 1710. Waller’s counter-charges of misappropriation of funds by Mackworth and his William Shiers and Thomas Dykes led to a Commons inquiry in 1709-10 which found them culpable. Legislation was proposed to restrict their movements but the prorogation of parliament saved them. Mackworth’s fellow directors cleared him of dishonesty but creditors and shareholders elected a new board which overthrew Mackworth and found fault with his conduct, though not fraud.” - ODNB. The two folded leaves, An Abstract of the Present State of the Mines of Bwlchyr-Eskir-Hyr; and of the material Proceedings of the Committee, appointed for the Management thereof signed by Francis Pigott, Secretary, Jan 31st 1699/1700, is also listed separately as Wing A139. It also comes in a 15pp. 8vo printing. The second abstract, separately paginated but with continuous register, is dated “from the 31st Day of January last, to the 30th Day of April, 1700”. Third (30 April to 19 December 1700) and Fourth Abstracts (10 December 1700 to 5 May 1701) were also printed in folio but are found in only a handfull of copies.

[384] SHIRLEY (James). Via ad Latinam Linguam Complanata. The Way made plain to the Latine Tongue. The Rules composed in English and Latine Verse: for the greater Delight and Benefit of Learners. First Edition. 8vo., [16], 96, 95-125 pp., lacking the engraved title by Thomas Cross. Some light soiling to title-page and A2, two small ink stains to A2r and A3v, edges slightly bumped throughout and with some gatherings beginning to come loose. Contemporary blind ruled sheep (corner of upper board chewed, bumped and rubbed). London: by R.W. for John Stephenson, 1649 £200 Wing S3492 (British Library, Bodley, Victoria & Albert Museum & National Library of Scotland in UK; Columbia, Folger [ex Britwell], Huntington [ex Hoe], Illinois, Texas [ex Huth - Pforzheimer], Toronto, Williams College in North America). Pforzheimer 936. By the successful playwright and poet. “This is Shirley’s first text-book and was written after he took up the profession of schoolmastering when the theatres were closed. It is an attempt to render the rules of Latin grammar easier to memorize by composing them in verse. It would seem that the system was a popular one for under various titles it was reprinted three or four times.” - Pforzheimer. With liminary verses by Thomas Stanley, Edward Sherburne, (2), Edward Saltmarsh, Geogre Blakeston, Francis Langton, Alexander Brome and John Ogilby Provenance: 1: Joseph Spry, 18th-century name in capitals on title page. 2: An English translation of Thomas Stanley’s liminary poem ‘Authori Amicissimo’ (A4) has been written in pencil on the rear flyleaf and pastedown.

[385] SHOTTEREL (Robert) & DURSEY (Thomas). Archerie reviv’d; or, the Bow-Man’s excellence. An Heroick Poem: being a Description of the use and noble Vertues of the Long-Bow, in our last Age, so famous for the many great and admired Victories won by the English, and other Warlike Nations, over most part of the World. Exhorting all brave Spirits to the banishment of Vice, by the use of so Noble and Healthful an excerise. First Edition. 8vo., [24], 79, [1] pp., with the first blank leaf. Light marginal browning, a number of the margins have also been closely trimmed. Contemporary sheep, covers ruled in blind (slightly rubbed, front cover with a 90mm scuff and with some minor staining on the rear board). London: by Thomas Roycroft, 1676 £750 Wing S3647 (+;+). A long poem on the “noble” art of archery, from its classical origins through to its use in later warfare and as a leisure pursuit. At the end of the poem is a prose “Postscript” (G8-F8) which provides an explanation of the fundamental points of archery technique. Provenance: Anonymous sale, Sotheby, 26/6/1956, lot 378, £19 to Maggs, with a catalogue cutting (£31/10/-) loosely inserted.

[386] SIAMESE TWINS. A True Relation of two Prodigious Births, the like not hapning in many Generations, the signification whereof is left to the judicious to contemplate. Broadside. Single Small Folio leaf. Mounted on a stub, lower inner margin strengthened, lightly foxed, fore-edge uncut. Early 20th-century half blue morocco and boards (spine faded, covers warped). London: by T.D., 1680 £950 166 MAGGS BROS LTD

Wing T3075A (British Library only in UK; Harvard [ex Narcissus Luttrell] & Texas in USA). The anonymous author states that on the authority of a “considerable citizen of London” he has heard that in “Summerset-shire, near Taunton Dean” a woman has given birth to “Two Children [who] grow together side to side from the arm-pits to the hip-bone.” Various details are then given about the anatomical implications of this condition. The children are said to be called Aquila and Priscilla and they have proven advantageous to their parents as visitors “from miles around” come to see the children and pay for the privilege. In the penultimate paragraph a link is made between this case and that of the body of a cow found close to the town which upon dissection revealed two conjoined calves. Those wishing for proof of this story are requested to visit “Mr. Jones’s Coffee House behind the Exchange in Ship yard, in Bartholomew Lane”. A facsimile of this was published, but not widely distributed by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1977 (100 copies). Provenance: Ernest E. Baker, F.S.A. (?1855-1931), of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset with bookplate. JSC’s pencil price of £10-0-0.

WITH AN EIGHT-PAGE MANUSCRIPT OF DANCE STEPS BY THE CHOREOGRAPHER KENELM TOMLINSON [387] SIMONS (Mathew). A Direction for the English Traviller By which he Shal be inabled to Coast about all England and Wales. And also to know how farre any Market or noteable Towne in any Shire lyeth one from an other, and Whether the same be East, West, North, or South from ye Shire Towne As also the distance betweene London and any other Shire or great towne: with the scituation thereof East, West, North, or South from London. By the help also of this worke one may know (in What Parish, Village or Mansion house soever he be in) What Shires, he is to passe thorough &c which may he is to travell, till he come to his Journies End. Engraved throughout: engraved title, two engraved text leaves “The use of all the insueing Tables” and 37 maps with tables of distance, each with a small county map in the corner and 3 larger folding plates, the first is a table of “The high wayes, and rodes, from any shire towne to London”, a map of England and Wales, a table of distances for Wales, and the final plate is a map with distances between towns in Lancashire, all of which were engraved by Jacob van Langeren but only the title is signed. Fourth edition. Small 4to., [44] engraved leaves, paginated in manuscript by a near contemporary hand. A few pen trials to the title-page, occasional spotting and soiling. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep (front cover with early repair, covers with scrapes, piece torn from rear cover, edges chipped, joints cracked). London: Are to be Sold by Thomas Jenner at the south entrance of the Exchange, 1643 £6000 Wing D1527 (+,+). Skelton, County Atlases of the British Isles 1579-1703, no. 20. Expanded fourth edition of the “the earliest English road book with maps” (Skelton) with a remarkable eight-page manuscript on the rear flyleaves of dance steps by the dancing master and author Kenelm Tomlinson. Tomlinson wrote The Art of Dancing (1753) “which is now the major primary source for the study of early eighteenth century English dance” (ODNB) [see below]. The maps are closely copied from those of the Playing- MAGGS BROS LTD 167

Cards of 1590 [derived from Saxton’s Atlas of 1579] and are also drawn on a uniform scale, about twice that of the cards.” (Skelton, 21). The work was first printed in 1635 by Matthew Simmons and he subsequently produced two additional editions before Thomas Jenner obtained the plates. Jenner “re-engraved the maps ... and republished them ... The plates then passed to John Garrett, who re-used them in an edition of A Book of the Names of all parishes (1677) and two undated editions of A Direction for the English Traviller “ (ibid, 64). This edition produced by Jenner is especially noteworthy because, as Skelton notes, “it appears probable that the larger maps of the new edition were prepared by Jenner for use by the parliamentary armies” (ibid, 69). Jenner also published the so-called “Quartermaster’s Map”, also for use of the Parliamentary armies, of which a later edition appears in this catalogue. On the rear free endpapers of this copy are two manuscripts. The first, appearing immediately after the printed text, is a two-page index to the engraved maps. The second is an eight-page guide to various dance steps in the hand of the dancing-master and author Kenelme Tomlinson (b.cir. 1693, d. in or after 1754?). His lavishly illustrated treatise The Art of Dancing was published in 1735 and “is important as the most detailed description of the dance forms and steps current in England by the 1730s, as one of very few eighteenth-century manuals to describe theatrical as well as social dance” (ODNB). The National Library of New Zealand has a manuscript workbook written by Tomlinson that contains six dances that he created for Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre in 1716 and 1721. Three pages of the present manuscript appear to be an early draft or a trial sketch of at least three of Tomlinson’s dance steps. A cursory search of The Art of Dancing does not locate any of the steps in the printed text but further study is needed to determine the relationship, if any, between the manuscript and printed text. Provenance: “Kenelme Tomlonson” (Tomlinson), signature on the title-page, and eight-page manuscript in his hand on the rear free endpapers.

[388] SMITH (John, M.D.). Gerochomia Basilike. King Solomons Portraiture of Old Age. Wherein is contained a Sacred Anatomy both of Soul and Body. And a Perfect Account of the Infirmities of Age, incident to them both. And all those Mystical and AEnigmatical Symptomes, expressed in the six former Verses of the 12th Chapter of Ecclesiastes, are here Paraphrased upon, and made plain and easie to a mean Capacity. First Edition. 8vo., [16 (first leaf imprimatur)], 266, [6 (index)] pp., folding letterpress table at p. 248. Some occasional spotting, blank lower corner of H1 torn away. Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners repaired and new endpapers. London: by J. Hayes for S. Thomson, 1666 £280 Wing S4114 (+;+). S4115 is another issue with a variant imprint. Reprinted in 1676. A reading of chapter 12 of Ecclesiastes as an allegorical medical text. Smith makes the claim, based on two phrases in Ecclesiastes (“The Pitcher at the Fountain, and the Wheel at the Cistern” that: “the doctrine which is now justly called Harvean [circulation of the blood] was at first Solomonian. For as it pleased God in these latter daies to give in this certain and most useful knowledge, to the industrious and indefatigable endeavours of the learned Dr. Harvey; so did he of old, give in the same, unto King Solomon ...” (p. 245). Provenance: Contemporary signature on the title page “Edmund Morgan” and ink “No 103” on the flyleaf.

[389] SMITH (Capt. John). The Trade & Fishing of Great-Britain Displayed: with a Description of the Islands of Orkney and Shotland [sic]. First Edition. Small 4to., [4], 16 pp. A4 a bit shorter along the fore-edge, very light worming to the inner margin and a single worm-track to the blank fore-margin. Mid 20th-century blue half morocco. London: by William Godbid, and are to be sold by Nathaniel Webb, 1661 £1500 Wing S4097 (British Library & National Library of Scotland only; no copies in USA). A second edition appeared a year later. Wing S4098 (Trinity College Dublin, Mitchell Library; Folger, Pennsylvania, & Yale in North America). First edition of a very rare description of the Shetland and Orkney islands. A facsimile of this was published, but not widely distributed by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1976 (100 copies). Written by John Smith (fl.1631-1670), a London merchant who, as he notes in his introduction, was apprenticed to a member of the Society for the Fishing- Trade of whom he accompanied on a journey to promote British fishing interests in the Shetland and Orkney islands in Scotland. “Under Charles I efforts were being made to exclude foreign fishermen from British seas, where they were seen to profit greatly from trade based on the herring fishery, while reaching agreement with Scotland over its rights to fish local waters. A Society of the Fishery of Great Britain and Ireland was established in 1632 and the area under Scottish control was divided into two parts: the Hebridean, under the earl of Portland, and the Shetland, under Philip Herbert, earl of Montgomery and fourth earl of Pembroke, who was one of the few to be genuinely interested in the affair ... Smith was sent in 1633 as Pembroke’s agent to 168 MAGGS BROS LTD

Shetland to report on its trade and industries, with a view to developing the fishery, with its related boat building and processing industries ... His account [the present work] mentioned the islanders’ settlements and agriculture and went into detail on the construction of their boats and gear. Cod and ling were taken on lines, and herring was netted offshore” (ODNB). Provenance: pencil annotation by JSC on the front pastedown.

[390] SPEED (Samuel) Prison-Pietie: or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, on Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added a Panegyrick to the Right Reverend and most Nobly descended, Henry Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London. First Edition. 12mo., [50], 191, [1 (advertisement)]pp., lacking the engraved portrait of Speed. Lightly browned throughout, a few ink blots and some marginal staining, including a stain in the lower corners towards the end, marginal flaw in I6 damaging one letter on the verso. Early 19th-century calf, tooled in blind (rubbed, corners bumped). London: by J[ames]. C[ottrel]. for S[amuel]. S[peed], 1677 £400 Wing S4902 (+;+). Variant setting of the title without Roger L’Estrange’s imprimatur. Samuel Speed - a grandson of the historian and cartographer John Speed - seems to have fallen foul of the law on a number of occasions. In May 1666 he was arrested for publishing and selling seditious books and, although these charges were subsequently dropped, it began a series of altercations with the Stationers’ Company. On this occasion it was debt: “London’s too late and fatal Judgments, the Plague and Fire, having made me uncapable to manage my Affairs with the like success as formerly, some Creditors, severe as well as covetous, forced me to a confinement in Ludgate; where, the better to employ my time, I have compiled and composed this Manual of Meditations, which consists of Psalms, Hymns, and Divine Poems; In which act of Contemplation I made my Prison my Paradise, ...”. Provenance: Early ink underlining and occasional pointing-hands or manicules throughout. 2: pencil note on the flyleaf “Thorpes Cat 7008 - 1825”.

[391] SPENCER (John). A Discourse concerning Prodigies: wherein the Vanity of Presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper Ends asserted and vindicated. First Edition. Small 4to., [12], 105, [5] pp. Title-page a little dusty and with the lower margin renewed, and the lower edge of gathering “M” folded a little shorter and uncut. Late 19th-century gilt ruled polished calf by Pratt; spine tooled in gilt and with a red and green morocco label, edges gilt. [London:] by John Field for Will. Graves, ... in Cambridge, 1663 £350 Wing S4947 (+;+). William E. Burns has described how this “important and largely neglected” book highlights a post-Restoration movement towards a rational explanation for natural phenomena. Spencer argued that prodigies could not be seen as metaphorical symbols of God’s displeasure and that any attempt to do this exaggerated man’s importance in the grand scheme of the universe. “Spencer did not refer directly to the newly institutionalized science of the Royal Society, but he shared the belief of Royal Society propagandists such as Thomas Sprat [...] that the age was one of rapid progress in natural knowledge” (Burns, “‘Our Lot Is Fallen into an Age of Wonders’: John Spencer and the controversy over prodigies in the early Restoration”, Albion, 27/2, 1995 p.248-9). A second slightly expanded edition was published in 1665 with a separate section entitled “A discourse concerning vulgar prophecies” (Wing S4948). Provenance: 1: Henry Huth (1815-1878); Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), with leather label, sale, Sotheby, 9/7/1918, lot 7010, £5/5/- to Bailey. 2: Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Bart. (1870-1937), sale, Sotheby, 21/3/1950, lot 6813, £5/10/- to Halliday.

[392] SPENSER (Edmund). The Works of that Famous English Poet Mr. Edmond Spenser. Viz. The Faery Queen, The Shepherds Calendar, The History of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is added, an Account of his Life; with other new editions never before in print. Folio. [10], 339, [1], 16, [8], 1-2, 10-11, 9-258, [2], 369-391, [1] pp., engraved frontispiece of Spenser’s tomb; printed in double columns. Some rust-spotting in places but otherwise a fresh copy. Contemporary mottled calf, marbled edges (surface of the leather crazed by the mottling acid, joints split at top and bottom, front cover wobbly, lower corners chewed, upper headcap and spine label missing, one front flyleaf coming loose). MAGGS BROS LTD 169

London: by Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, 1679 £300 Wing S4965 (+;+), Pforzheimer 980. Considered to be the third collected edition by Pforzheimer on account of the reprinting of the 1611 edition in 1617. This edition includes, for the first time, Brittain’s Ida (now believed to be by Phineas Fletcher), the View of Ireland (first published in 1633) and Bathurst’s Latin translation of the Shepheardes Calendar (published in 1653).

THE MONSTROUS PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE NONCONFORMING CHRISTIAN [393] SPINOLA (George). Rules to get children by with handsome Faces or, Precepts for the Extemporary Sectaries which Preach, and Pray, and get Children without Book to consider and look on, before they leape. That so, their Children may not have such strange, prodigious, ill-bodeing Faces as their Fathers, who (unhappily) became so ill-phisnomied themselves, not only by being born before their conversion, by Originall Sin, and by being Crost over the Face in Babtisme; but by the lineall ignorance of their parents too in these precepts, for begetting children of ingenious features and symmetrious limbes. First Edition. Small 4to., [8] pp. Lightly browned. Early 20th-century half morocco by Riviere. London: for R.H., 1642 £1250 Wing S4983 (+ in UK; Amherst College, Wisconsin-Madison, Library of Congress & Yale in USA). Fear of the secret or “invisible” sectarian Christian prompted a series of pamphlets, such as the present one, which claimed that the sinfulness of parents caused their children to be born deformed. This pamphlet - described by Julie Crawford as “one of the most successful and interesting of these texts” - is purported to be by the pseudonymous George Spinola who claims that his study of physiognomy has shown that most deformities occur amongst the children of nonconformists. Crawford states that Spinola’s cure was that “only by abandoning their deforming beliefs can sectarian parents avoid producing monstrous offspring. True invisibility - that is, normalcy - comes only with conformity” (Crawford, Marvelous : monstrous births in post-Reformation England, 2005, p.161). A facsimile of this was printed, but not widely distributed, by JSC’s Toucan Press.

[394] SPRAT (Thomas). The History of the Royal-Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge. First Edition. Small 4to., [16], 438, [2] pp. Engraved plate of the arms of the Royal Society on the verso of the licence leaf, and two folding plates on pages 173 (slightly shaved) and 233 (very short tear) but without the etched frontispiece by Hollar that is often missing. Contemporary calf (rebacked, new endleaves, corners repaired). London: by T. R. for J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1667 £400 Wing S5032 (+;+). Thomas Sprat (1635-1713) was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1663. Only the second part of his History relates directly to the Society, the first and third dealing respectively with ancient philosophy and experimental knowledge. Provenance: There are early ink “CR” ciphers on the licence leaf and title-page “CR”, similar to the cipher of Charles II and an early ink explanation of the coat- of-arms beneath it. Early 19th-century signatures “Edwd: Williams” on the front flyleaf and “John Johnstone” on the recto of the licence leaf.

AN EARLY UTOPIA [395] [SPRIGG (William)]. A Modest Plea, for an Equal Common-wealth, against Monarchy. In which the genuine Nature, and true Interest of a Free-State, is briefly stated; its Consistency with a National Clergie, Hereditary Nobility, and Mercenary Lawyers, is examined; Together with the Expediency of an Agrarian and Rotation of Offices Asserted. Also an Apology for Younger Brothers, the Restitution of Gavil-kinde, and Relief of the Poor. With a Lift at Tythes, and Reformation of the Laws and Universities. All accommodated to Publique Honour and Justice, without injury to any mans Propriety; and humbly tendered to the Parliament. By a Lover of his Country, in order to healing the Divisions of the Times. One of two Editions. 8vo., [16], 136 pp. Blank upper right corner of A1-E1 and I8-K4 intermittently dampstained, some occasional light soiling, and a few light ink drops to gatherings A and B. Contemporary sheep (recently rebacked and re-cornered, new endpapers). 170 MAGGS BROS LTD

London: for Giles Calvert, 1659 £950 Wing S5079 (+ in UK; Newberry Library, Union Theological Seminary & Texas in USA). A variant edition from the same year (with a slightly different pagination) is recorded as Wing S5078 (+;+). The work describes a utopian commonwealth organized as a meritocracy, that abolished the professional clergy, promulgated straightforward laws, and decentralized schools which encouraged practical experience. records that Sprigg’s book was “greedily bought up, and taken into the hands of all curious men” (ODNB). Provenance: 1: Robert Pearce, 17th-century signatures to title-page. 2: Sir Frederick Rogers (1716-1777), 4th Baronet of Wisdome in Devon, signature on title.

[396] SPRIGGE (Joshua). Anglia Rediviva; Englands Recovery: being the History of the Motions, Actions, and successes of the Army under the Immediate Conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt. Captain-General of all the Parliaments Forces in England. First Edition. Small Folio., [24 (including frontispiece with woodcut of Fairfax’s arms and errata leaf], 171, 176-335, [5] pp., folding engraved portrait of Fairfax on horseback by William Marshall (350 x 240mm) (soiled, backed with later paper, large folding engraved view of the Battle of Naseby (770 x 551mm) (backed with later paper; slight damage in the folds, a few ink blots), folding letterpress table. Rather grubby throughout with occasional spots and stains E4v and F1r particularly soiled. Contemporary calf (rebacked, 19th-century marbled pastedowns). London: by R.W. for John Partridge, 1647 £350 Wing S5070 (+;+). “At the beginning of 1647 he published Anglia rediviva, a day-by-day account of the army’s successes during the first fifteen months of its existence. In it he provided an unabashedly providential interpretation of the New Model’s unbroken string of victories. Whether it was the miraculous draught of fishes near Dartmouth, or the cannon ball that snapped the chain of the drawbridge at Tiverton, or the escape of General Fairfax from a shower of timber, stones, and sheets of lead after the terrible explosion at Torrington.” (ODNB). Provenance: Walter Charles James, 1st Baron Northbourne (1816-1893), landowner and politician, armorial bookplate on the front pastedown.

[397] [STACY (Edmund)?]. The Country Gentleman’s Vade Mecum: or his Companion for the Town. In Eighteen Letters, from a Gentleman in London, to his Friend in the Country, wherein he passionately disswades him against coming to London, and Represents to him the Advantages of a Country Life, in Opposition to the Follies and Vices of the Town. He discovers to him most of the Humours, Tricks and Cheats of the Town, which as a Gentleman and a Stranger he is most exposed to. And gives him some general Advice and Instructions how he may best in his Absence dispose of his Affairs in the Country, and manage himself with the most Security and Satisfaction when he comes to London. First Edition. 8vo., [16 (of 24)], 148, [4 (advertisements)] pp., lacking the contents leaves (a1-4) which were never bound-in. Some occasional spotting, small blank piece torn away from the corner of D6 and H2, minor rust-hole in C3, and H3v lightly stained. Contemporary sprinkled sheep, covers panelled in blind (joints split at the foot, and the lower headcap chewed by insects, front pastedown and flyleaf ink spotted). London: for , 1699 £200 Wing C6533 (+;+). An epsitolary warning to a country gentleman in which the “characters” of a sot, beau, and gamester are described, and the numerous dangers to be found in London such as the cock-pit, playhouse, tennis courts, bowling green, gaming-houses, lotteries, bawds and jilts, bullies, setters and hangers are exposed. The dedication to Lord Beaumont is signed “Ed. St----cy”. Provenance: “Tho[mas]: Elton”, early signature on the front flyleaf. MAGGS BROS LTD 171

[398] STANDFAST (Richard). Clero-laicum Condimentum. Or, a Sermon preached at a Visitation in Saint Nicholas Church in Bristoll, April 16. An. D. 1644. First Edition. Small 4to. [4], 32pp. Title-page soiled with a prominent crease to the inner margin, par2r and A1v with dark stain along upper margin, corner of B1 damp-stained and spotting to lower margins between B2 and C2. Final leaf browned on recto. Early 20th-century cloth-backed boards (soiled). Bristoll: for Thomas Thomas, 1644 £300 Wing S5207 (British Library, Bodley, Bristol Central Library, Cambridge, Christ Church Oxford, John Rylands Library in UK; Yale only in USA). See the following item for a note on Standfast. In April 1644 Bristol was still under Royalist occupation. Standfast’s sermon, on Mark 9.50 “Have Salt in your selves, and have peace with another”, is dedicated to Thomas Westfield, Bishop of Brisol who had ordered a visitation of his church and died a few months later.

PRESENTATION COPY FROM A BLIND POET- PRIEST & WITH A MANUSCRIPT SERMON [399] STANDFAST (Richard). Two Books, Viz. A Little Handful of Cordial Comforts. And a Caveat against Seducers. Whereunto are Annexed the Blind Man’s Meditations. First Collected Edition. 12mo. [2 (title to A Little Handful )], 70, 73-83, [1 (imprimatur)]; [4 (title & introductIon to A Caveat], 5-72, [2 (general title)], 75-96, [2 (Meditation)] pp. Fine copy in contemporary black morocco, the covers with a gilt two-line fillet border with a fleuron at the corners, smooth spine divided into six panels tooled in gilt with small flower tools, gilt edges (spine slightly faded, lightly rubbed, rear pastedown unstuck). London: by Thomas Mabb, for Edward Thomas, 1665 £8500 Wing S5213A (no copy in UK; W.A. Clark & Harvard only). The general title (Two Books, Viz. ...) is still in its original position as leaf D1 of part 2 A Caveat. The volume opens with the title to A Little Handful of Cordial Comforts. ... The Fourth Edition (also listed separately as Wing S5210, British Library; Harvard, W.A. Clark, UC-Davis, Huntington, Yale; and there is a separate title dated 1664 to A Caveat (Wing S5205, British Library; Harvard, W.A.Clark, UC-Davis, Huntington, Yale). A Little Handfull was first published in 1639 (Bristol Central Library only) and there was a “Third Edition” in 1657 (Yale only). A Caveat against Seducers with the Blind Man’s Meditations was first published in 1660 (British Library, Peterborough Cathedral [= Cambridge], Huntington & Yale) and this is the second edition. Richard Standfast (d. 1681), a chaplain to Charles I, was rector of Christ Church, Bristol. He was deprived of his living after the Civil War and imprisoned for a time in Bristol Castle. He recovered his living in 1660 but by this time he was blind. His five poetical “meditations” on his blindness are powerfull and moving. As well as the works in this volume he published three sermons and a further poem, The Dialogue between a Blind-Man and Death, appeared posthumously and was frequently reprinted in England and America. Bound at the front of this copy is a 16-page unpublished manuscript (in a scribal hand) of a sermon by Standfast on the text “1. Peter 1: 24 All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of the grass. The grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away”. There are also last two ink manuscript corrections on the last leaf of verse at the end. Provenance: Presentation copy from the author inscribed (for Standfast) on the front flyleaf “To the Vertuous Mris. Anne Smyth Wife to the W[orshi]pf[u]l. John Smyth Esqr”, with an eleven-line poem beneath “Amongst the objects of a woman’s care / None like a Glasse, and Garden seeme to please. ...” and with the 172 MAGGS BROS LTD

blind Standfast’s carefully written signature “Ri Standfast” the end. Anne Smyth was presumably a member of the prominent Smith/Smyth family, merchants, of Ashton Court, Long Ashton, Bristol. Hugh Smith was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II on 23 April 1661 and a baronet on 16 May 1661, was M.P. for Somerset 1660 and 1679 and Sheriff 1665/6.

ONE OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN ILLUSTRATIONS OF SEAMEN [400] ST LO (George). England’s Safety: or a Bridle to the French King. Proposing a Sure Method for Encouraging Navigation, and Raising Qualified Seamen for the well Manning Their Majesties Fleet on any Oaccasion, in a Months Time, with out Impressing; [...] also an In-sight into the Advantages may be made by the Herring and other Fisheries, in respect to the Breeding of Seamen, and otherwise. Together with a Proposal for the Maintenance and Education of all the Male Children of all such as shall be Kill’d in Service, both Seamen and Officers; and a Provision for Gentlemens Younger Sons, and the Sons of Commanders Kill’d in the Service, to qualifie them for the Sea, in order to make officers. ... “Second Edition with Additions.” Small 4to., [2], 54, [2 (advertisements)] pp., woodcut frontispiece. Fore-margins lightly damp stained and verso of final leaf a little dusty. Late 19th-century half cloth and drab boards (spine sunned and boards a little scratched and stained). London: for W. Miller, 1693 £1500 Wing S342 (British Library [3 copies - 2 imperfect], Cambridge, Senate House Library in UK; W.A. Clark, Folger, Harvard, Minnesota in USA. The first edition was published in the same year - Wing S341 (+,+). St Lo distinguished himself as the captain of the Portsmouth which in 1688 delivered the declaration of the Prince of Orange to the English fleet. In the following year he was taken prisoner after a seven-hour assault by a French ship off Bantry Bay. St Lo was injured during the battle and on his release he was unfit to rejoin the Navy, instead he joined the Navy Board as an extra (and often outspoken) commissioner. In this pamphlet St Lo argued that the Navy could be manned by 20,000 sailors if they were paid properly and not pressed. The woodcut on the title-page shows two sailors, one holding a globe and the other a sextant, either side of a nautical cartouche; above them are shown the ships of the English fleet and the legend reads “This Encouraged, England must Image reduced. MAGGS BROS LTD 173

flourish”. Ralph Davis in English Merchant Shipping and Anglo-Dutch Rivalry in the Seventeenth Century (1975) states that the image of the two sailors, depicted in their typical dress of a canvas apron, thrum cap and skirted jacket with opening cuffs, is “one of the earliest known illustrations of seamen” (Davis, p. 20). Provenance: JSC’s pencil notes on the front pastedown correctly stating that the second edition is scarcer than the first.

[401] A Strange and Wonderful Account of the Great Mischiefs, sustained by the late Dreadful Thunder, Lightening, and Terrible Land-Floods, caused by the Immoderate Rain in England, Scotland, & Holland, giving an Exact Relation of the Men, Cattle, Houses, &c. that have been Thunder-struck, or perished by the Floods; but more especially a sad and lamentable accident that happened by flashes of lightening, on the 29th. of May last, 1683. First Edition. Small 8vo., [2], 12, [2 (woodcuts)] pp., black letter; three crude woodcut illustrations on the recto of the final leaf. Cropped at the foot with the lower edge of A1-2 and A7-8 repaired (with loss to the imprint and some minor loss of and occasional catchwords), title-page very lightly spotted, staining to the fore-margin of A5 (affecting the final word on approx eighteen lines). Early 19th-century half calf and drab boards (front board scuffed). London: J. Wright, I. Clarke, W. Thackery [rest of imprint lost], [?1683] £4500 174 MAGGS BROS LTD

Not in Wing or ESTC. A unique collection of vivid stories relating to the storms of 1683. A facsimile of this was published, but not widely distributed by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1976 (100 copies). The account begins in Clapham on the night of the 29th May when, according to the annonymous author, it began to rain as though it had been “poured down with Buckets” (A2v), the heavy rainfall soon began to enter into the houses “causing the stools and chairs to swim about, and those that inhabited there, for the safety of their lives to betake themselves to the upper part of their Dwellings” (A3r). The rain was soon followed by a thunder and lightning storm in which two residents of Clapham were struck by lightning in their home which “so miserably scorched them, that their skin and sinues shriveled up after a strange manner” (A3r). The account then moves backwards to the 20th May to Spalding in Lincolnshire where a hail storm with stones “as big as walnuts” (A3v) preceded a downpour which burst the banks of the local rivers. The flooding destroyed grain and hay stores and killed the sheep and cattle in the surrounding fields. Details are then given of an overturned coach in a swollen river which killed both of its passengers and a William Whotton of Dunstable who in attempting to cross a flooded river on horseback drowned. The author goes on to describe how a ship left anchored in Cowes-Road while the majority of its crew were ashore was struck by lightning. The crew returned to the ship to find the main mast split in half and the few crew members left aboard “were black, but being washed, only certain white streaks, as if they had been made with scalding Lead” remained (A6v). The final section of the book collects news from Scotland and an account of a flood near Amsterdam. The woodcut illustration preserved in this copy and bound after the printed text, was perhaps intended as a rudimentary publisher’s wrapper. It consists of three crude blocks showing a hail storm battering the tiled roof of a house, a naval battle (in lieu of a storm), and a river. A number of accounts of the storms of 1683 have survived which provide some evidence to support Brian Fagan’s claim that the period between 1680 and 1700 in England was particularly remarkable for its “unsettled weather [...] and higher rainfall” (Fagan, The Little Ice Age, 2000, p.132).

IN PRAISE OF WESTERN WOMEN [402] STRONG (James). Joanereidos: or, Feminine Valour; eminently discovered in Western Women, at the Siege of Lyme. As well by defying the merciless Enemy at the face abroad, as by fighting them in Garrison Towns; sometimes carrying stones, anon tumbling of stones over the Works on the Enemy, when they have been scaling them, some carrying powder, other charging of Pieces to ease the Souldiers, constantly resolved for generality, not to think any ones life dear, to maintain that Christian quarrel for the long Pariament. Whereby, as they deserve commendations in themselves, so they are proposed as example unto others. With Marginal Notes on the Work, and several Copies of Verses by a Club of Gentlemen on this Authors year and half work. Second Edition. Small 4to., [12], 16, [24] pp. Spotted and lightly browned with some tearing in the inner margin of the title and following two leaves caused by the original stitching, many edges uncut. Early 19th-century half calf and marbled boards (headcaps damaged and edges rubbed). [London]: Re-printed Anno Dom. 1674 (with additions) for the satisfaction of his Friends, £1500 Wing S5991 (British Library, Bodley, Avon Central Library Bristol, Balliol College Oxford in UK; Folger, Harvard, Huntington, Illinois, Minnesota, Yale in USA). First published in 1645 (Wing S5990). The puritan divine James Strong’s 6-page poem celebrating the heroic efforts of the women of Lyme in Dorset in 1644 which withstood a two-month siege by royalist forces under Prince Maurice from 20 April to 15 June is prefaced by 40 pages of mock-commendatory poems, by a number of different, usually pseudonymous, writers which lampoon the author, rather in the manner of the verses prefixed to Thomas Coryate’s Crudities (1611). The poems are almost all in English by such as “Toby Trundel” or “Rog. Rimer of Doggrill-Hall.” Two poems are in Latin, one in mock-Scottish dialect, one in mock-Chaucerian English by “J. Chaucer junior”, another in Law French and one short poem in faux-Welsh is signed “Ai Kunt”. Strong (c.1618-94), of Chardstock, Dorset, matriculated at New Inn Hall, Oxford, on 8 April 1636. He was a chaplain in the parliamentary army, rector of Bettiscombe, Dorset (1648), Earnshill (1686) and vicar of Curry Rivell, Somerset (1686). Provenance: 1: Edward Rowe Mores (1730-1778), bibliographer and historian of printing, with his signature [E]x libris ERMores” on the title, sale, Paterson 2/8/1779. 2: James Boswell the younger (1778-1822), barrister and literary scholar, younger son of the biographer of Dr Johnson, sale, Sotheby, 24/5/1825, lot 2394 (with lot number on a label pasted to the flyleaf), £1/11/6. 3: Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, small signature “TPark” in the upper fore-corner of the title-page. Park sold his books to (1760-1840) Eventually the books passed to Longman although this copy does not appear in Bibliotheca Anglo-poetica catalogues. MAGGS BROS LTD 175

[403] STUBBE (Henry). Horae Subsecivae: seu Prophetae Jonae et Historae Susannae paraphrasis Graeca versibus heroicis. Authore H. Stubbs, ex Aede Christi, Oxoniae. First Edition. 12mo. [8], 39, [1]pp., the first leaf with a factotum woodcut “A” on the recto and a liminary verse on the verso. First blank stained by the turn-ins and with the edges a little ragged. Mid-20th-century brown morocco. London: typis Du-Gardianis, 1651 £180 Wing S6047 (+ in UK; W.A.Clark, Dickinson School of Law, Huntington, Smith College & Yale in USA). ESTC calls for a woodcut coat-of-arms in place of the factotum initial “A” found here on the recto of the first leaf. A precocious paraphrase in heroic Greek couplets of two Books from the Old Testament, with the Latin and Greek on facing pages, dedicated to the famous Dr Busby of Westminster School, by the future physician and pamphleteer Henry Stubbe (1632-76). [Bound with]: BIRKHEAD (Henry). [Poematia in elegiaca, iambica, polymetra, antitechnemata et metaphrase, membratim quadripertita. Second Edition. 12mo., [12 of 14], 128, 119-121 [i.e. 131], [13] pp., lacking the title-page. Occasional browning in places. [Oxford: L. Lichfield for E. Forrest], 1656. Wing B2978 (+;+). Provenance: “R[ichard]d Park”, signature on the front flyleaf dated 1689 and “e coll Mert[on] Oxon” (not in Foster) beneath this is a faint pencil drawing of a man, the face strengthened with ink (perhaps a self-portrait?). A manuscript title has been provided on the blank A2 of Poematia and the names of a few of the poets and addressees identified by their initials only are provided.

[404] [SYMSON (Patrick)]. Spiritual Songs or, Holy Poems. A Garden of true Delight, containing all the Scripture-Songs that are not in in the Book of Psalms, together with several sweet Prophetical and Evangelical Scriptures, meet to be composed into Songs. Translated into English Meeter, & fitted to be sung with any of the common tunes of the Psalms. Done at first for the Authors own Recreation: But since Published (before in part, and now more compleat) to be, as a Supplement to the Book of Psalms, out of the same rich Store-house, a further Help to the Spiritual Solace of his Christian Friends. And Digested into Six Books, according to the Order and Distinction of the Books of Scripture, out of which they are taken. Whereof the Table, Page 7th, will give a more particular view. 12mo., [20], 256pp. Small worm hole in lower fore-corner becoming increasingly larger throughout (touching catchwords in places), closed tear to fore-margin of A2 and G1, fore-margin of A3 stained, and with foot of L2, L7, L8 damaged (no loss of text). Contemporary sheep (front board detached, covers very worn and scuffed, corners bumped). Edinburgh: by the Heir of Andrew Anderson &c. For William Dickie, [1686?] £200 Wing S3674A-C identifies three (& ESTC four) variant issues with different imprints; this undated issue and three others dated 1685/6). Wing S6374B (British Library, London Library; W.A. Clark [imperfect] & Princeton Theological Seminary) does not distinguish between the dated (1685) and undated issues for William Dickie. ESTC adds a copy at Duke (lacking one preliminary leaf) of this issue and lists the Princeton copy as dated 1685. Provenance: Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (1641-1724), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, armorial bookplate dated 1702 to front pastedown and three early library shelf marks to flyleaf.

HOW TO RECOGNIZE A FALSE MINISTER [405] T.C. A Glasse for the Times By which according to the Scriptures, you may clearly behold the true Ministers of Christ, how farre differing from false Teachers. With a briefe Collection of the Errors of our Times, and their Authors Names. Drawn from their own writings. Also Proofes of Scripture by way of Confutation of them, by sundry able Ministers. First Edition. Small 4to., [4], 8 pp., With a two-part woodcut frontispiece (closely trimmed at the fore-edge, touching the border) [see below]. Lightly foxed and soiled. Late 19th-century vellum boards (front cover lightly foxed). London: Robert Ibbitson, 1648 £950 Wing C132 (British Library [evidently lacking the frontispiece as it is not reproduced on EEBO], Bodley, Dr. Williams’s Library, Congregational Library, Liverpool University & Regent’s Park College in UK; Folger, McGill, New York Public Library & Union Theological Seminary in North America). 176 MAGGS BROS LTD

With a remarkable two-part horizontal woodcut frontispiece depicting “The Orthodox true minister” preaching from a pulpit to a standing male audience on one side and “the seducer and false prophet” preaching from what appears to be a pub window in front of a crowd of mainly women, children (three of whom have climbed a tree) and a cripple. A rare florilegium of scriptural references that the author, “T.C. a friend to truth”, intended as a guide that allowed readers to indentify false prophets. The first section of the work is a list of Biblical citations that prove the validity of priests and the dangers of false prophets. The second section, “a collection of the Errours of our Times”, collects numerous attacks on scripture such as the argument that it is written by man and so therefore cannot be considered the word of God. The author includes a number of errors that “are so grosse, they need no further confutation”. Included in this group is John Milton for his belief that “unfitnesse or contrariety of minde betwixt man and wife, from a naturall cause which hindereth solace and peace are a great reason of divorce”. (6). Milton’s Doctrine and discipline of Divorce appeared in 1643. Provenance: 1: Faded early 19th-century signature on the title-page. 2. Henry Huth (1815-1878); Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), with leather label, sale, Sotheby, 5/6/1912, lot 1235, 5/- to Dobell [15/- in the knock-out]. 3: Charles Wells, with book-label and pencil note at the end “Bot [sic] of Bertram Dobell Oct. 1912 (From the Huth Library) Charles W”. 4: JSC’s bookplate and ink “Cx” cipher and purchase note “bought at Wells sale at Grand hotel, Bristol 1933 10/1” and “Cost 10/- 1933” for it.

[406] TASSO (Torquato). FAIRFAX (Edward), translator. Godfrey of Bulloigne: or the Recovery of Jerusalem. Done into English Heroical Verse, by Edward Fairfax, Gent. Together with the Life of the said Godfrey. Second Edition. 8vo. [32], 655, [1] pp. Small closed tear to title-page (with evidence of earlier restoration), occasional rust spotting throughout, dampstaining to margins in places, 55mm piece torn away from fore-margin of A7, repaired tear to A8, small MAGGS BROS LTD 177 piece torn away from corners of H4, 2A1 and with a 60mm closed tear to foot of 2I1 (touching text) Contemporary calf (head and tail of the spine damaged, corners bumped, label missing). London: by J[ohn]. M[acock]. for George Wells and Abel Swalle, 1687 £180 Wing T174A (+;+). Originally published in 1600 and reprinted in 1624. This edition was published with three variant imprints (see also Wing T174 and T174B). Provenance: 1: E. Marshall, signature dated “1769” on title. 2: John Warren, signature dated “1809” on title.

[407] TATE (Nahum) Poems. By N. Tate. First Edition. 8vo., [16], 134 pp., without the final blank leaf. Small ink stain to the blank fore-margin of E2, rust spot to F4, and with some light staining to F6 and H2. 19th-century calf, blind panelled (front board detached). London: by T. M for Benj. Tooke, 1677 £150 Wing T208 (British Library, Bodley [2 copies], Cambridge, Merton College Oxford, Leeds & National Trust [Lanhydrock] in U.K.; + in USA). The playwright, translator and future Poet Laureate Tate’s first collection of poetry owed much to the influence of Thomas Flatman (including a poem dedicated to him). The poems are a mix of love lyrics, translations and reflections on time as well as the more controversial ‘On the present corrupted state of poetry’ which complains that ‘poetry is now mercenary grown’ (16). An expanded and revised edition of this collection was published in 1684. Provenance: 1: John Whitefoord Mackenzie, with mid-19th-century bookplate. 2: Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), Prime Minister of Great Britain (1894-1895), with armorial bookplate.

[408] [TAYLOR (Jeremy)]. A Discourse concerning Prayer ex Tempore, or, by Pretence of the Spirit. In justification of Authorized and Set-formes of Lyturgie. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 36 pp. 15mm damp stain to foot of title-page (not touching text), larger damp stain along fore-edge of gatherings B-C and inner margin of E. Modern quarter imitation sheep and marbled boards. [No place or printer] in the Yeere 1646 £150 Wing T312 (+;+) A response to the Directory for the public worship of God which replaced the Book of Common Prayer in England between 1645-1660. Provenance: Early ink ascription on the title ‘By Bp: Tailour’ (repeated) and a few marginal ink crosses.

[409] TAYLOR (Jeremy). XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; being for the Summer half-year, beginning on Whit-Sunday, and ending on the xxv. Sunday after Trinity. Together with a discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministeriall. [- Clerus Domini: or, a Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial]. First Edition. Small Folio. [18], 378, [2 (blank)]; [2 (subtitle)], 55, [3 (final leaf blank)] pp. Some occasional spotting but otherwise a good copy. Mid-19th century dark green morocco, covers with a large early 16th-century style acorn panel in blind, and with the large gilt arms block of the 8th Earl of Scarbrough, gilt spine, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. London: by R.N. for Richard Royston, 1651 £220 Wing T405 (+;+). In fact the reissue of 1653 as Eniautos a Course of Sermons for all the Sundaies of the Year; [...] (Wing T329) with the general title, but rebound without the first part, XXV Sermons (1653) or “Table to both the Volumes” at the end (3F1-2). The two parts were also issued separately. Gathorne-Hardy & Williams, Taylor, 14A (& 20A for Eniautos), noting an errata leaf in two copies they had examined, not present here. Provenance: 1: Occasional underlining and marginal marks in ink including a few small florets. 2: Bound for John Lumley-Savile, 8th Earl of Scarbrough (1788- 1856), of Rufford Hall, Nottinghamshire; by descent to his natural son John Lumley-Savile, 1st Baron Savile of Rufford (1818-1896); Rufford Hall book-label (the estate was sold in 1938). 178 MAGGS BROS LTD

[410] [TAYLOR (John), the “Water Poet”]. Cornu-copia, or, Roome for a Ram-head. Wherein is described the dignity of the Ram-head above the Round-head, or Rattle-head. First Edition. Small 4to., [8] pp., crude woodcut of a wife attempting to saw off her husband’s horns. Each leaf inlaid, first letter of the title just shaved, very light staining near the inner margin of the title, and with some minor browning throughout, text lightly inked in the lower corner of A2r (yet still legible). Early 19th-century half black morocco and drab boards (spine worn, upper headcap torn away and corners bumped; text coming loose). London: by John Reynolds, 1642 £1250 Wing T445 (British Library [Thomason] & National Library of Scotland [Crawford] in UK; Harvard, Huntington [Cunliffe] & Folger [Britwell] in USA). A scarce mock comic dialogue between a husband and wife on the subject of whether it is wrong for the husband to voluntarily wear the cuckold’s horns. The husband claims that he wears the horns by choice as “hornes are so serviceable and usefull that no man almost can live without them” (A2r), he goes on to say that those while “with a head full of wit [...] or long locks [are] esteemed a roaring boy or a swaggerer” he, on the other hand, is deemed to be “but an innocent harmless and contented man” (A2v). He then goes on to give examples from the animal kingdom of beasts whose horns are “sufficent defence” from other animals. The dialogue breaks down at this point and the remainer of the text is a list, by the husband, of oblique references to horns including shoe horns, horn- books, horn thimbles, the Dutch city of Horne [Hoorn] and the hunting horn. There is a reference in the text to “Sir John Suckling with his six score troopers” which appears to be alluding to Suckling’s retreat from a failed battle between the English and Scottish in 1638. The attribution to John Taylor is by Wing although subsequent scholars have countered this. It is certainly in Taylor’s style but R. B. Dow in his unpublished Harvard thesis (one of the first important works on Taylor) dismissed the attribution and it is not included by Bernard Capp in the rudimentary bibliography at the rear of The MAGGS BROS LTD 179

World of John Taylor the Water-Poet (1994). A fascimile of this was published, but not widely distributed, by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1976/7. Provenance: 1: Old pencil foliation in the corners (82-85) from a former binding and a shaved ink note at the foot of the final page (partly shaved) could be a date “28 Ap. 1789”. 2: Graham of Gartmore, Perthshire, armorial bookplate c. 1830.

[411] TENISON (Thomas). The Creed of Mr. Hobbes examined; in a feigned Conference between Him, and a Student of Divinity. First Edition. 8vo., [24], 248, [2] pp., with the final errata leaf. Title-page lightly soiled and frayed along the edges, intermittent light marginal damp-staining. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, spine with five raised bands (35 x 10 mm piece torn from head of spine, foot of spine chipped and cracked with minor loss, joints worn, front cover loose, covers and edges rubbed and worn). London: for Francis Tyson, 1670 £550 Wing T691 (+;+). “Thomas Tenison, a future archbishop of Canterbury, was one of the young churchmen militants who must needs try their arms ‘in thundering upon Hobbes’s steel-cap.’ In The Creed of Mr. Hobbes examined (1670), he selected a number of Hobbes’s confident assertions and set them together so as to show their mutual inconsistencies” (ODNB). The work “was probably partly responsible for the condemnation of Leviathan by Oxford University in 1683” (ibid).

[412] TERENTIUS AFER (Publius). Terence’s Comedies: Made English with his Life and some Remarks at the End. By Several Hands. First Edition. 8vo., [2], xxix, [5], 324 pp. Small (20mm) piece torn away from fore-margin of the title-page, some very light staining. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label (joints cracked, headcaps broken, and corners bumped) London: for A. Swall and T. Childe, 1694 £150 Wing T749 (+;+). The translators remain unidentifed. Provenance: Charles Kemeys, contemporary signature and initials on title page, probably Sir Charles Kemeys, 3rd. Bart. (1651-1702), of Cefu Mabley, Co. Glamorgan, Wales; by descent to the Tynte family, Baronets (extinct 1785) and Kemeys-Tynte family of Halsewell, Somerset.

[413] THEOCRITUS. CREECH (Thomas), translator. The Idylliums of Theocritus with Rapin’s Discourse of Pastorals Done into English. First Edition. 8vo. in half-sheets, [10], 160 pp., engraved frontispiece depicting a bucolic scene by “G.S.”. Some light browning, I2 mis-folded and close at the fore-margin (missing 15mm). Contemporary sprinkled sheep, paper label on spine (covers scuffed and bumped, small piece missing from worm damage at the foot of spine) Oxford: for Anthony Stephens, and are to be sold in London by Abel Swalle, 1684 £350 Wing T854 (+;+). London issue with a cancel title on a stub without Leonard Lichfield’s name as printer and with Abel Swalle’s name and address in London added to that of Stephens in Oxford to the imprint. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Tweedale, presumably that of John Hay, 2nd. Marquess of Tweedale (1645-1713), of Yester House, Gifford, East Lothian, High Treasurer (Scotland) 1695, High Commissioner to the Parliament (Scotland) 1704, Lord High Commissioner (Scotland) 1704-5; Tweedale sale, Sotheby, 15/7/1957, £3/10/- to Maggs, with cost code at the end.

[414] [TOMKIS (Thomas)]. Lingua: or the Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority. A pleasant comedy. Small 8vo., [144] pp. Sheet “B” lightly browned, small hole in a blank part of the title. Early 20th-century half brown morocco by the Atelier Bindery (joints heavily rubbed, rear pastedown torn removing a label). London: for Simon Miller, 1657 £300 180 MAGGS BROS LTD

Wing T1842 (+;+). It is likely that Lingua was first performed in Cambridge in the early part of the 17th century. The play seems to have been influenced by an Italian model and portrays “a farcical presentation of a struggle between personifications of the tongue and the five senses all which are identified by their Latin names” (ODNB). Lingua was first publish in 1607 and reprinted in 1617, 1622, 1632 and in an undated printing before this edition. Provenance: An early inscription in the upper fore-corner of the title-page has been cropped “[...]urry e Coll Pem[broke] 16[...]”.

[415] TORRIANO (Giovanni) Della lingua Toscana-Romana. Or, An Introduction to the Italian Tongue ... Also a new Store House of proper and choice dialogues most useful for such as desire the speaking part, and intend to travel into Italy or the Levant. Together with the Modern way of addressing letters and stiling of persons, as well in actual Discourse as in Writing. First Edition. Large 8vo. [16], 293, [9]; [4], 256 pp. Small hole (printing flaw?) to K1 affecting one or two letters of text, light dampstaing to the lower right corner of the first few gatherings, recto of last leaf lightly soiled. Contemporary reversed calf (heavily worn, joints cracked and exposing sewing, corners chipped). London: for J. Martin and J. Allestrye, 1657 £1250 Wing T1919 (+;+). First edition of Torriano’s detailed grammar of the Italian language which includes a lengthy section of Italian/English dialogues “acccommodated to the modern stile of the best cities and courts of Italy” “Torriano flourished as an Italian teacher in London in the middle and latter part of the seventeenth century. He succeeded Florio as the most distinguished exponent of the Italian language in England and he seems to have himself regarded his work as a continuation of Florio’s. He used, expanded, and adapted to the needs of a later generation much of the material accumulated by his greater predecessor ... Not only as a lexicographer and proverb-collector, but also as a compiler of grammars and of Italian-English dialogues, Torriano is a more tactful, more conventional, and less interesting than Florio ... A later grammar by Torriano was called Della Lingua Toscana-Romana (1657)” (Frances Yates, John Florio: The Life of an Italian in Shakespeare’s England, Cambridge: 1934. pp. 322-25). The dialogues, printed in Italian and English in facing columns, are charming and potentially of great interest to historians because they reflect the usage of “the best cities and courts of Italy” and not only indicate how Italian was spoken at the time but demonstrate what daily life was like. Some examples are: “A stranger wrangles with an Italian drawer” (47), “A stranger discourses with an Italian picture drawer” (81), and, last but not least, “A stranger discourses with an Italian bookseller” (105).

[416] TRAHERNE (Thomas). Christian Ethicks: or, Divine Morality. Opening the Way to Blessedness, by the Rules of Vertue and Reason. First Edition. 8vo., [32], 352, 323-577 [1] pp. Lightly foxed throughout due to poor paper quality, title-page with some light wrinkles. Contemporary calf, spine with four raised bands and a red morocco label lettered in gilt (rebacked with extensive repairs to corners and headcaps). London: for Jonathan Edwin, 1675 £650 Wing T2020. (+;+). Published after the author’s death in 1674, this is the first and only edition of Traherne’s work of moral philosophy. Traherne explains that his purpose is to “to teach men the nature of virtue, and to encourage them in the practice of it, by explaining its use and efficacy” and that “virtue is the only means by which happiness can be obtained” (p. 2). The work then functions as a guide to the virtuous life, or more precisely a Christian courtsey book with the pursuit of virtue as a necessary condition of a well-lived life. It is undoubtedly the author’s most important work in prose. Long neglected, Traherne’s works have undergone something of a renaissance as modern critics have demonstrated “a growing appreciation of the qualities, both literary and intellectual, of his prose, and an increased understanding of the depth of his engagement with the philosophical and political issues of his time” (ODNB). Provenance: 1: “Ja:[mes] King”, near contemporary signature to the upper right corner of the title-page. 2.Sir John Dashwood King, (1765-1849), British Tory MP, perhaps a descendant of the earlier owner, 19th-century bookplate to front pastedown. MAGGS BROS LTD 181

“A FEATHER’D RAIN, CAME IN ABUNDANCE DOWN / AND WITH DRY INUNDATIONS DID US DROWN” [417] A True and Perfect Narrative of the Great and Dreadful Damages Susteyned in Several Parts of England, by the Late Extraordinary Snows: Whereby above Twenty Families of Poor People, Men, Women, and Children, were Distressed, and some Destroyed at Langsdale, in the Bishoprick of Durham: the Snow from the Hills covering the Tops of their Houses, that they could not get out: having burnt all their Goods to keep them warm. As also of a Family in Somerset-shire neer Bath, so beset with the Snow, that they were forced to live Three Days on nothing but Grains. And several Persons, and Great Quantities of Cattle and Sheep lost in Northumberland, Darbyshire, Glocestershire, Shropshire, Lincolnshire, Isle of Ely, and other places. Faithfully Extracted from Letters lately sent from Persons of Good Credit and Quality in all those parts. First Edition. Small 4to., 8 pp. Title-page and verso of final leaf lightly soiled, title-page marginally shorter at foot than the other leaves. Disbound; cloth folder (folder bowing, tie missing). [London]: for P. Brooksby, [1674] £1800 Wing T2531A (British Library & Balliol College Oxford in UK; Harvard [2 copies] only in USA). A rare, brutally realistic account of the blizzard of March 1674 during the mini-Ice-Age that regularly saw the Thames freeze over (but not in this year) and which buried alive dozens of villagers around the country. In Langdale the people found themselves as “cold, hunger, darkness, horrour, and dispair begin all at once to feize [freeze] their hearts” (4). Neighbouring residents are reported to have come to the aid of the villagers by attempting to dig them out but found most of the inhabitants dead: “some lay dead with raw meat in their mouths, having no fire left to dress it; others that had a better stock of fireing made shift to keep themselves alive by eating cats-flesh, dogs, or whatever they could get”. (5). A facsimile edition of this was published, but not widely distributed, by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1977 (100 copies).

IN PRAISE OF VEGETARIANISM [418] TRYON (Thomas). The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness: or, a Discourse of Temperance, and the Particular Nature of all Things requisite for the Life of Man; As, all sorts of Meats, Drinks, Air, Exercise, &c. with special Directions how to use each of them to the best Advantage of the Body and Mind. Shewing from the true ground of nature, whence most diseases proceed, and how to prevent them. To which is Added, a Treatise of most sorts of English Herbs, with several other remarkable and most useful Observations, very necessary for all Families. The whole Treatise displaying the most hidden Secrets of Philosophy, and made easie and familiar to the meanest Capacities, by various Examples and Demonstrances. The like never before Published. Communicated to the World for a General Good, by Thomas Tryon, Student in Physick. The Third Edition. To which is added a Discourse of the Philosophers Stone, or Universal Medicine, Discovering the Cheats and Abuses of those Chymical Pretenders. Third Edition. 8vo., [16], 312, 305-456, 24 pp. Title page browned and chipped along edges, light marginal staining throughout, light foxing and spotting to E4-F8, K8-L1, and with an 8mm circular hole through the centre of P1. Mid 20th-century green morocco. London: printed and are to be sold by most booksellers, 1697 £200 Wing T3202 (+;+). T3202A-B are issues with variant imprints. The way to health was originally published as Health’s grand preservative in 1682. It favours a staunch diet without alcohol, tobacco, and, crucially, meat. Provenance: 1: “Henry Bradbury ows this book”, 18th-century signature at the foot of the title, signature on Hh4v and on the last page. 2: John Soper, 19th- century pencil note to the rear free endpaper reading “Steal not this booke for fear of shame for in it is the owners name for if you die the Lord will say whose is the booke you seized the other day. John Soper, London”; Henry John Soper, with his pencil address in Pimlico and Mrs. Soper, with her ink address in Pimlico, London., “Old England”.

[419] [TURNER (Thomas)]. The Case of the Bankers and their Creditors Stated and Examined. Wherein the Property of the Subject in this, and the like Cases, is soberly asserted, by the Common and Statute Laws of England; His Majesties most gracious Declarations; By innumerable, great and Important Records of this Kingdom, from the time of the Norman Conquest to our own Times; By the Civil Law, History, Polity, Morality, and Common Reason: and all Objections undeniably Refuted. As it 182 MAGGS BROS LTD was inclosed in a Letter to a friend, By a true Lover of his King and countrey, and Sufferer for Loyalty. The Third Impression, with Additions amounting to a third part more than hath been at any time before printed. “Third Edition”. 8vo. [10], 147, [1 (errata)] pp. Title-page lightly soiled, many upper corners slightly creased, small closed tear at the foot of F2 (not touching text), blue ink-stain in the margin of K7r with slight offset on the opposite page. Contemporary sheep (rebacked, new endleaves but old rear flyleaves preserved; rather tightly bound with narrow inner margins). London: in the Year 1675 £240 Wing T3338 (+;+). An attack on the exchequer for defaulting on repayments on war-loans for the Anglo-Dutch Wars to the City bankers, merchants, and goldsmiths in 1672 (the “Great Stop of the Exchequer”). The first edition of 1674 was a small quarto of 44 pages. Provenance: Roger Taunton, two early ink inscriptions on the old rear flyleaf: “Roger Taunton his hand and pen god” and “Remember Job a man most just from premeer throne cast”.

[420] TUSSER (Thomas). Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. As well for the Champion or open Countrey, as also for the Woodland or several, mixed in every Moneth, with Houswifery, over and besides the Book of Housewifery. Corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented to a fourth part more, with divers other lessons, as a diet for the Farmer, or the properties of Winds, Plants, Hops, Herbs, Bees,and approved Remedies for Sheep and Cattel; with many other matters both profitable, and not unpleasant to the reader. Also two Tables, one of Husbandry, and the other of Housewifery, at the end of the book, for the better and easier finding out of any matter continued in the same. Small 4to., 144, 143-146, [4 (tables)] pp. Black Letter. Heavily browned/spotted in places throughout due to poor paper quality, scorch marks on K1, P3-4, S2 and T2, headlines on the penultimate leaf just shaved; large lock of ?wool tied in a bow loosely inserted between G3-4. Late 18th-century calf; spine divided by five raised bands and with a red morocco label (upper joint slightly cracked). London: by T[homas]. R[atcliffe]. and M[ary]. D[aniel]. for the Company of Stationers, 1672 £500 Wing T3369 (+;+). Tusser’s husbandry manual in verse was developed by the author over the course of two decades. It was first published by Richard Tottel in 1557 as A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie. The second edition of 1562 was enlarged so as to consider more fully the rural labour of women; as the title-page announces, the original text is here “maried unto a hundreth good poyntes of huswifery”. After two further editions in this form (1570 and 1571), the text was expanded for publication in 1573 as Five hundred points of good husbandry united to as many of good huswiferie. Its publication in eighteen editions between 1557 and 1599 makes it probably the biggest-selling book of poetry of the reign of and it remained popular among succeeding generations. Provenance: Thomas Holt White (1724-1797), naturalist and literary critic, label with his engraved initials on the front pastedown, and three successive Holt White family signatures on the flyleaf “T: Holt White”, “Alg[ernon]. Holt White” and “Charles Holt-White”. Two clippings from old auction catalogues have also been pasted to the flyleaf. A longer note on the second flyleaf gives some biographical details of Tusser and a quote stating that the book “may still be perused with benefit to the reader, being full of useful hints, as well as forming an interesting picture of the agricultural progress of those days”.

[421] TYSON (Edward). Carigueya, seu Marsupiale Americanum: or, the Anatomy of an Opossum, dissected at Gresham-College. First Separate Edition. Small 4to., [2], 60 pp., two folding engraved plates (one slightly shaved at the foot), corners and edges occasionally bumped. Disbound (traces of leather visible on the spine) but stitched (apparently at a fairly early date) into a portion of a 17th-century printed singing manual [we have been unable to identify the exact manual, but a section of Henry Purcell’s “When, lovely Phyllis, thou art kind” is visible]. London: for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford, 1698 £1800 Wing T3597 (British Library, Bodley, Royal College of Surgeons in UK; UC-Biomedical, New York Public Library, Rochester, Texas Tech, Yale in USA). Tyson records in the introduction that the Royal Society was presented with the live opossum by William Byrd who had recently returned from Virginia. Byrd also brought back a rattlesnake and both of the animals were kept in the repository until the opossum died seven months later. Tyson was requested to perform MAGGS BROS LTD 183

Image reduced. an autopsy and make a full report to the Society. He wrote to at the end of February 1697 stating that “ye Possum is dead. & I do design tomorrow morning to look into his inside & should be glad of yor Company” (BL MSS. Sloane. 4037 - quoted in Montagu, p.216). Montagu notes the speed in which Tyson was able to dissect the animal as by the 2nd March he had delivered his findings to the Society in which he made the “first record of the occurrence of gastric ulcer in a lower mammal, and the earliest record of the condition in man.” (Montagu, Edward Tyson, 1943, p.218). The report of the dissection first appeared in the March-April issue of the Philosophical Transactions (1698) before the work was published in this separate volume “simultaneously, or possibly a little later in the year” (Montagu, 218) - an early example of a scientific offprint. The separate edition was printed from standing type with only the pagination changed and an added title-page (according to Montagu some copies were left with unaltered pagination on the final leaf though this does not occur in our copy or the copy on EEBO). Montagu explains that “historically the work is of the first importance because it is here that Tyson gives the first description of the anatomy of a marsupial which could claim to have the slightest pretensions to scientific accuracy, and for the first time describes many of the unique features of the anatomy of a marsupial” (220). The two engraved plates were produced from drawings, probably undertaken by Henry Hunt, and show the bone structure, physical appearance and internal organs of the animal. Provenance: 18th-century ink ?lot number “6874” at the head of the front wrapper. 2: JSC’s pencil note on the inside of the front cover “James Yonge’s copy”; presumably the surgeon, physician and Fellow of the Royal Society (1647-1721). Yonge’s books were sold at auction on March 13th, 1718 (see Robin Alston, Inventory of Sale Catalogues 1676-1800, Vol I, p. 192); a catalogue for this no longer exists so we are unable to check the association nor do we know why JSC may have made this attribution and we have not seen any other books similarly noted; also with an old pencil price “£225”. 184 MAGGS BROS LTD

[422] VALENTINE & ORSON. Valentine and Orson, the Two Sons of the Emperour of Greece. Newly Corrected and Amended; with New Pictures, Lively Expressing the History. Small 4to., [8], 202, [6 (Table and advertisements)] pp., woodcut frontispiece with advertisements below, woodcut on the title- page and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text (some repeats). Very small piece torn away the upper blank corner of the woodcut frontispiece, minor rust-hole through P1(in text) and Dd2 (in margin), small hole worn through the foot of 2b2, light worming to the fore-margin of T2-V3, and with a rust stain to Bb4 (touching text). Contemporary sheep, covers ruled in blind (inside joints split, old stain from a glass on the upper cover, minor staining on the rear). London: by J.W. for E Tracy, 1694 £650 Wing V31A (Bodley & National Library of Scotland in UK; Harvard, Illinois & Newberry in USA). Valentine & Orson is a much-reprinted French romance telling the story of twin brothers who are abandoned in infancy. Valentine, is brought up as a knight whilst the other, Orson, is raised by bears as a wild man of the woods. Orson is eventually discovered and tamed by his brother and they go on to rescue their mother from a giant named Ferragus. The earliest surviving English edition was printed by Wynkyn de Worde c. 1510 and the latest editions on ESTC are dated 1800. The woodcut illustrations are of great age and show signs of wormholes, cracks, and other damage. Provenance: 1: Faded contemporary inscription on the verso of the frontispiece “Ann Hill Her Booke Given by her Brother Feby - 8”. 2: Albert M. Cohn, collector and bibliographer of George Cruikshank, with early 20th-century armorial bookplate; collection sold in 1934.

[423] VENABLES (Robert). The Experience’d Angler: or, angling improv’d. Being a General Discourse of Angling. Imparting the Aptest Ways and Choicest Experiments for the taking of most sorts of Fish in Pond or River. By Col. Robert Venables. The Fifth Edition much enlarged. MAGGS BROS LTD 185

“Fifth” [i.e. Fourth] Edition. Small 8vo., [16], 96, [6 (table)] pp., engraved frontispiece (A1v) by Van Hove (backed with old paper and bound tight to the inner margin and with some early blotted ink pen-trials at the head), ten small engravings in the text of various fish. Lightly browned, margins spotted throughout, margins trimmed throughout; many sidenotes and a few signatures and catchwords shaved. Early 20th-century plain brown sheep, gilt edges (spine lightly sunned). London: by B[enjamin]. W[hite]. for B. Tooke, and Tho. Sawbridge,1683 £750 Wing V186 (British Library, University of Nottingham and Chester Public Library in UK; + in USA). Previously published in 1662, 1668 (“third edition”), 1676 (also issued with Walton and Cotton as The Universal Angler.) Robert Venables (1612/13-87) served as a captain in the Parliamentarian forces in Cheshire and Lancashire during the Civil War and later as a colonel in Ireland. His hard-won reputation was lost on a disastrous expedition against the Spanish West Indies and he retreated into “provincial obscurity” (ODNB) where he seems to have indulged his passion for fishing. This book is a product of that time and delights in the “calm and composed” (A4v) mind of the angler - far removed from the politics of a military career. Like most manuals of the time the book is set out in chapters dealing with a single common theme; from an outlining of the choice of rods and baits, to the best locations to find fish and the correct technique for casting a fly. In the fifth chapter ten small engravings are provided illustrating, amongst others, the perch, pike, eel and bream (pp. 50-9). With a short introductory epistle by Isaak Walton, who admits he has not met the author but had seen it before it went to press.

[424] VERGILIUS MARO (Publius). OGILBY (John), translator. The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro. Translated by John Ogilby. Second Edition. 8vo., [4], 420 pp, engraved portrait of Ogilby and additional engraved title by William Marshall (both dated 1649). Minor rust spots to a number of leaves throughout, and with the upper corners of the last few leaves creased. Contemporary sheep, covers ruled in blind, later (but old) paper labels on spine (worn, leather along the fore-edge of the front board chewed away and starting to detach, corners of lower cover chewed, joints split, headcaps missing, corners bumped). London: by Thomas Maxey for Andrew Crook, 1650 £180 Wing V609 (+; +). Ogilby’s translation of Vergil was first published in 1649 and was initially circulated privately amongst members of the Merchant Taylors’ Company (ODNB). The success of this initial printing prompted this second edition before the magnificent illustrated folio edition of 1654. Provenance: “Charles Moore his Book”, early inscription on the back of the portrait and early signature “John Ogilvy” on the title [the christian name written over another].

[425] VERGILIUS MARO (Publius). OGILBY (John), translator. The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro. Translated by John Ogilby. Ninth Edition. 8vo., [2], 403, [1] p., 10, [10] pp., engraved title-page by Drapentier and 32 engraved plates. Occasional rust spots, and a small closed tear to the blank fore-margin of D7 (not affecting text). Contemporary sheep (nasty 19th-century reback, now worn again with the upper joint split, corners and edges chewed, 19th-century endpapers). [London]: sold by Tho: Guy, 1684 £180 Wing V615 (+;+). The plates are reduced copies of the 1654 folio edition. Provenance: John Frederick Doveton, L.L.B., with 19th-century armorial bookplate.

[426] VILLARS (Nicolas-Pierre-Henri). AYRES (Philip), translator. The Count of Gabalis: Or the Extravagant Mysteries of the Cabalists, Exposed in Five Pleasant Discourses on the Secret Sciences. First Edition of this translation. 12mo., [8], 183, [1], 11, [1] pp. Occasional spot or rust-mark. Fine copy in contemporary calf, gilt spine (headcap missing, joints rubbed, an old paper shelf-label at head of spine). 186 MAGGS BROS LTD

London: for B.M. printer to the Cabalistical Society of the Sages, at the Sign of the Rosy-Crusians,1680 £800 Wing V386 (+;+). Another translation, by “A.L.”, was published in the same year. An anti-Rosicrucian text in the form of a romance. Provenance: 1: Lucy (Sherard) Manners (1713-51), wife of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland, with her signature “Lucy Rutland” on the front pastedown. 2: George Manners, signature “G Manners 1791”. A later pencil note states “from Haddon Hall”, Derbyshire, the second house of the Dukes of Rutland.

[427] VILLAULT or VILLAUT (Nicolas, sieur de Bellefond). A Relation of the Coasts of Africk called Guinee; with a Description of the Countreys, Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; of the productions of the Earth; and the Merchandise and Commodities it affords; with some Historical Observations upon the Coasts. Being collected in a Voyage by the Sieur Villault, Escuyer, Sieur de Bellefond, in the years 1666, and 1667. Written in French, and faithfully Englished. Second Edition in English. 12mo., [8], 280 pp. Small ink stain and a minor chip from the outer corners of the title-page, browned and spotted throughout, printer’s crease in sheet B obscuring two lines of text on a few leaves, small piece torn away from the blank lower edge of I5 and an inky smudge touching the catchword on K5r, text-block splitting at p. 166/7. Contemporary sheep (head and tail of spine and joints repaired, front joint splitting again, covers and spine rubbed and scuffed). London: for John Starkey, 1670 £2000 Wing V388 (British Library, Bodley, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, King’s College London, All Souls’ College Oxford in UK; Folger, Huntington, New York Public Library in USA). Anonymous translation of the French La Relation des costes d’Afrique, appellees Guinee (Paris, 1669). The first edition is recorded by ESTC in nine locations in UK and four in USA: UCLA-Biomedical Library, W.A. Clark Library, Minnesota & Yale. Rare account of a voyage to Guinea by a French traveller that discusses the flora, fauna, people and their customs - including very detailed descriptions of their trade and religion. The slave trade is mentioned early in the work when the author discusses the lucrative trade on the west coast of Africa and how native Africans are “transported for slaves into America; and contribute exceedingly to the profit of those plantations” (9). There is also an important early description of the practice of slavery by the natives: “They have not many slaves upon this Coast, it not being permitted to any but Nobles, to Trade in that nature by which means they are not allowed to entertain any but for their necessary service in their families or fields. These slaves are commouly such poor miserable Creatures, as having not wherewithall to maintain or keep themselves alive, are glad to sell themselves to the rich merchants of that Countrey ... if they endeavour to escape, for the first time they cut off one ear, and for the second the other, if they attempt it a third time, and be taken, they either sell them away, or cut off their heads, as they please. The children of these poor people are slaves as well as the Parents, and obliged to do whatever they are commanded” (196-97). Later in the work, eight pages (198-206) are devoted to discussing the various diseases of Guinea and their treatment. Provenance: 1: “Joseph Chambrelan”, signature on the recto of the first flyleaf. 2: Unidentified sale, Christie’s, July 1946, with Maggs Bros. cost code “C/7/46 loo + ioq / loioq” at the end.

[428] VIOLET (Thomas), Goldsmith. An Appeal to Caesar: wherein Gold and Silver is Proved to be the Kings Majestie’s Royal Commodity. Which by the Laws of the Kingdom, no Person of what Degree soever, but the Kings Majestie, and his Privy Councel, can give Licence to Transport either Gold or Silver to any Person, after it is Landed in any part of the Kingdome of England. [...] Humbly Presented to his Most Sacred Majestie, and his Most Honourable Privy Councel, in opposition to some Merchants, who are Endeavouring, upon feigned Pretences, to dispossesse his Majestie of this Royal Trust, and to have it Confirmed by Act of Parliament, to Transport at the Merchants pleasure, Forreign Bullion and Coine freely, after it is Imported into the Kingdom and make it a Free Merchandize for their private profit, to the Damage of the whole Kingdom in general. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 57, [1] pp., folding engraved plate of “the true figure of the silver coyne that Queene Elizabeth allowed the East India Marchants to send to those Indies”; misbound with another Violet pamphlet from the same year bound after G3, 90mm closed tear to the fore-corner of C1 (touching seven lines of text), tiny rust-hole in D3, small piece torn away from the corners of E3, F2 and [2]A4, and with F4 and G3 slightly larger and folded-in at the lower edge. Mid-19th-century half calf and drab boards (corners bumped). MAGGS BROS LTD 187

London: in the Year 1660 £650 Wing V580 (+;+). [Bound with (after p. 52 of the first work)]: VIOLET (Thomas). To the Right Honourable, the Lords in Parliament assembled. The Humble Petition of Tho. Violet Goldsmith. [London: 1660]. First Edition. 8 pp. [London: 1660]. Wing V588A (British Library, Goldsmiths’ Library, Christ Church and Balliol Colleges Oxford in UK; Folger, Harvard & Huntington in USA). Violet was imprisoned early in his career for illegally exporting English silver coin for French gold. Having proved that he had benefited the country by making a profit through this means he was released on the proviso that he shared part of his profit with the King. He then began to operate as an informer, reporting on illegal speculation, coin clipping and exportation of bullion, especially to the East Indies. He was a regular petitioner to parliament for compensation for his supposed efforts and losses and for restitution to his pre-Civil War offices of Surveyor of the Gold and Silver Wire-Drawers and Master-worker in the Mint.

[429] VIVES (Juan Luis). Linguæ Latinæ exercitatio. 12mo., 107, [1 (blank)] pp., title within a type ornament border Small rust hole to lower corner of A4 (touching text) and with a rust mark to lower margin of A8 and C2, lower fore-corner of A5 missing from a paper flaw (no loss of text) and upper blank corner of D7 torn away. Contemporary sheep, covers ruled in blind, remnants of a paper spine label (lower joint damaged by worming at the head, single worm-hole in the upper joint, pastedowns unstuck). London: Typis A[lice]. W[arren]. cum Societate Stationiarum, 1660 £420 Wing V667A (Archbishop Marsh’s Library in Dublin only). A Latin school book popular thoughout Europe first printed in 1538 and reprinted repeatedly throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. The printer Alice Warren was one of the printers of the Shakespeare Third Folio (1663) - rather a contrast to the present little volume. Vives (1492/3-1540), a Spanish Jewish converso, spent many years dividing his time between England and the Continent where he moved in the highest humanist circles. He has been described as a “towering figure of the Renaissance, a man of intense learning, integrity, and originality, whose worth has yet to be fully estimated” (ODNB). Provenance: Ink inscription “JOHN WADDINGE HIS BOOKE AME[N] 1662” and “Cost 8d” followed by 2 pp manuscript contents’ list.

[430] [WALKER (Obadiah)]. Of Education. Especially of Young Gentlemen. In two parts. The Second Impression with additions. Second Edition. Small 8vo., [12], 280, [2] pp., engraved coat-of-arms of Oxford University on the title. Printer’s crease across title-page engraving, inner margins of the title and contents leaves slightly damaged by adhesion, prominent dampstain in top inner margin of most leaves but particularly between K-M2 & M11-N6, corners stained in sheets C-D, and with a small piece torn from the corner of M5. Early 19th-century half calf and paste boards (rubbed and worn with some worming to spine). Oxford: at the Theatre, 1673 £150 Wing W400 (+;+). Walker has been described as a “born teacher” who inspired “intellectual endeavour and personal affection” in his pupils (ODNB). This work was the product of his clearly sought-after teaching experience. The book was widely popular and was reprinted a number of times in the author’s lifetime. Provenance: 1: Early ink notes on a1r (“It is better to be well tutored than nobly born”) and a6r (short verses “In Authorem”), rather faded. 2: Cooper family, of Markree Castle, Co. Sligo, Ireland, with blue shield-shaped case-label.

[431] [WALKER (Obadiah)], attributed to]. Periamma epidemion: Or Vulgar Errours in Practice Censured. Also the Art of , composed for the benefit of young Students. First Edition. Small 8vo., [16], 112; [6], 128 pp., in two parts; general title ruled in red. Severe staining to A1-8, two-line stain (and small hole) to centre of B7, otherwise lightly browned and with occasional small stains or rust-spots. Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves). London: for Richard Royston, 1659 £140 188 MAGGS BROS LTD

Wing W408 (+;+). With a general title-page (A1). The first part, with a separate title-page (A2, sometimes cancelled) provides several short discourses disproving popular myths and received wisdom, such as the reproaching of “red-hair’d men” and “the feminine sex”, censuring the “the generall Scandall of some Professions, especially that of the Profession of Physick”, “vanity of affecting Epitaphs”, “Pretenders to Religion, “Railing against an Adversary”. The second section (with a separate title-page, register, and pagination) is a detailed guide to the “art” of oratory - the product of Walker’s life as a tutor and future Master of University College, Oxford. The two parts were also issued separately (Wing W408 & 410).

[432] WALKER (William). The Royal Grammar, commonly called Lylly’s Grammar, Explained. In those Rules of it, which concern the Genders, and Irregular Declinings of Nouns; and the Preterperfect Tenses, and Supines of Verbs; ordinarily called, Propria quae maribus; Quae genus; and As in Praesenti. By way of Question and Answer, Opening the Meanings of the Rules with great Plainness, to the understanding of Children of Meanest Capacity. With Choice Critical Observations on the same from the best extant Authors and Grammarians; for the amending of the Mistakes, and supplying of the Defects thereof. By William Walker, B.D. Author of the treatise of the English particles. The Second Edition. Second Edition. Small 8vo., [16], 256, [8], 257-486, [2] pp. Small rust hole through the blank part of the title-page and upper corner with minor damage due to an ink stain, larger hole from a paper flaw in B3 (touching top line of text), some occasional minor spots, ink stain along the upper edge of I5-K1, and with a small piece torn away from the blank corner of G4. Contemporary calf, spine with four gilt tooled panels (spine label missing and upper joint split at the head, endleaves unstuck). London: for Robert Powlet, and Edward Pawlet bookseller in Grantham, 1674 £200 Wing W434 (British Library, Birmingham Central Reference Library, Trinity College Cambridge, Leeds & Senate House Library in UK; W.A. Clark, Huntington, Illinois & Texas in USA). Walker (1623-84) was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and was a schoolmaster at Louth in Lincolnshire, becoming rector of Colsterworth. From 1671 he was schoolmaster of Grantham grammar school which explains the inclusion of Edward Pawlett, bookseller in Grantham, in the imprint. In 1655 he published the “first systematic treatment of English particles for students of Latin” (ODNB) in his A treatise of English particles. This was followed by a work on the art of teaching (1669) and the first edition of Royal Grammar in 1670. He also produced a number of theological tracts defending the Church of England. Provenance: 1: Juvenile ink inscription on the flyleaf “William Wegron ejus Liber the givet of mistr John Goddard”. 2: Helyar family, of Coker Court, Somerset, with 19th-century armorial bookplate.

[433] WALKLEY (Thomas). A New Catalogue of the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, Barons, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with their Names, Sirnames and Titles of Honor. With the Knights of the Garter, Knight Baronets of England and Scotland, Knights of the Bath, from the first of King James; and Knight Batchelors, from the first of King Charls, to his death. Whereunto is added those honors which are exempted by Act of Parliament, since the fourth of January, 1641. Collected by T.W. Second Edition. 8vo., 148, [2]; 29, [1] pp. Dark staining around the edges of the title-page and with an old inscription above the imprint scratched away, remaining leaves browned and dampstained throughout and with some ink staining on the final two leaves. Later calf (rebacked, new endpapers). London: Thomas Walkley, 1652 £120 Wing W464 (+ in UK; Huntington, Folger, Illinois, Folger & Minnesota in USA). Provenance: “Cor Regale” inscribed on the title-page and a few early amendments.

[434] WALLER (Edmund). Mr. Wallers Speech in Parliament, at a Conference of both Houses in the painted chamber. 6. July 1641. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 14 pp. Title spotted and final page soiled. Late 19th-century half blue morocco. Endleaves, title-page and final leaf lightly foxed. London: by J[ohn]. N[orton] for Abel Roper at the black spread Eagle, 1641 £100 MAGGS BROS LTD 189

Wing W522 (+;+). Waller’s speech at the impeachment trial of the ship-money judge Sir Francis Crawley. This pamphlet was allegedly so popular that twenty thousand copies were sold in one day. See Crawley’s entry in ODNB for a good account of the affair. ESTC records a variant with “Fagle” rather than “Eagle” in the imprint (Pforzheimer 1041) - could it be the work of a paper restorer at Riviere who bound it? Provenance: Cooper family, of Markree Castle, Co. Sligo, Ireland, with Markree Library bookplate “re-arranged in 1913 by Bryan Cooper”.

[435] WALLER (Edmund). Poems, &c. Written by Mr. Ed. Waller of Beckonsfield, Esquire; lately a Member of the Honourable House of Commons. All the Lyric Poems in this Booke were set by Mr. Henry Lawes Gent. of the Kings Chappell, and one of his Majesties Private Musick. Second or Third Unauthorised Edition. 8vo. [viii], 96, [4 (contents)]pp., lacking the engraved portrait. Repair in the inner margin of the title (touching one rule), a single worm-hole in the upper outer margin extends gradually to three holes, then a trail and disappears at p. 75. Early 19th-century russia, covers tooled with a single gilt rule and a blind roll border, spine tooled in gilt and blind, drab pastedowns (front joint half-split but holding, lower joint rubbed, nasty dent in the second to last panel). London: by T.W. for Humphrey Mosley, 1645 £200 Wing W512 (+,+). Pforzheimer 1035. The portrait is not present in the Huntington (Lefferts - Chew) or Texas (Pforzheimer) copies An unathorised edition, this with the spellings “Armes” and “yatd” in the imprint. In the same year were published an unauthorised The Workes published by Thomas Walkley (W495), reissued as Poems &c. by T. W. for Humphrey Moseley (W512), and an ostensibly authorised (“printed by a copy of his own hand- writing”) Poems &c. “by I.N. for Hu. Mosley” (W513). The first certainly authorised edition was in 1664 (“Published with the Approbation of the Author”).

[436] WALLER (Edmund). Poems, &c. Written upon several Occasions, and to several Persons: by Edmond Waller, Esq; The third Edition with several Additions, Never before Printed. Small 8vo., [8], 235, [5] pp., variant with “London” printed in red in the imprint. Pastedowns and flyleaves a little stained. Contemporary sheep, ruled in blind (edges chipped, lower corners bumped, lower headcap torn away). London: for Henry Herringman, 1668 £150 Wing W515 (+;+). A later edition of Waller’s popular collection of poems. Provenance: Margaret Short, early signature in the upper blank margin of the title-page and pen-trials on the flyleaves.

[437] WALLER (Edmund). Poems, &c. Written upon severall Occasions and to several Persons: by Edmond Waller, Esq; The Sixth Edition with several Additions, never before Printed. Sixth Edition. 8vo., [8], 299, [5]; [4], 100 pp., engraved portrait of Waller after Lely. Small tear to the lower blank margin of the portrait, light browning, occasional rust-spots, blank corner of P1 weak from a paper flaw, short closed tear to the upper margin. Contemporary calf (boards and spine rubbed, bumped and worn, gilt label faded, joints starting to split). London: for H. Herringman, and sold by Jacob Tonson, 1694 £120 Wing W519 (+;+). The first setting with ‘Tryumph’ on E8r. [Issued with:] Waller (Edmund). The Maid’s Tragedy altered. With some other Pieces. Not before Printed in the several Editions of his Poems. 8vo., [4], 100 pp. A little spotting to E4 and E5, and with some occasional light modern pencil annotations. London: for Jacob Tonson, 1690. Wing W502 (+;+). First published surreptitiously in the same year as The Second part of Mr. Waller’s Poems. 190 MAGGS BROS LTD

[438] [WALLIS (Ralph)]. Room for the Cobler of Gloucester and his wife: with several Cartloads of Abominable irregular, pitiful stinking Priests: as also a Demonstration of their Calling after the manner of the Church of Rome; but not according to Magna Charta, the Rule of the Gospel. Whereunto is Added, a parallel between the Honour of a Lord Bishop, and the Honour of a Cobler; the Cobler being proved the more Honourable Person. First Edition. Small 4to., 40 pp. Lightly foxed throughout, minor tear along the upper edge of C2, small piece torn away from the blank corner of E1, and with some leaves partly uncut. Mid-19th-century half black morocco and marbled boards (corners a little worn). [London]: for the Author, 1668 £1100 Wing W619 (+;+). Only edition of a vicious lampoon on the Church of England “described by Sir Roger L’Estrange as ‘the damnedest thing [that] has come out yet’ (CSP Dom., 1667-8, 357). In this grossly libellous work, Wallis adopted a prurient and scatological tone, providing outrageous if entertaining anecdotes about clergymen whose names and addresses he knew. His depiction of the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England as ‘the parings of the devil’s bum-hole (40) are among his milder observations.” (ODNB). Wallis imagines a dialogue between a man and his wife as they discuss the church. At the beginning they break into a satirical song which is to be sung to the tune “Room for Cuckolds”. The last sheet has been set in smaller type to avoid running out of space. Provenance: 1: Henry Cunliffe, with his bookplate, and his notes on the first flyleaf; he was probably the Lancashire dialect lexicographer who collected Shakespearean sources and early books on the English language.

[439] [WARD (Seth) & WILKINS (John)]. Vindiciae Academiarum containing some briefe Animadversions upon Mr Websters book, stiled, The Examination of Academies. Together with an Appendix concerning what M. Hobbs and M. Dell have published on this Argument. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 65, [1] pp. Ink stain in the upper inner corner of the title-page and marking to C3r and C4, sidenote on A3v shaved, closely shaved at the foot touching a few catchwords. Mid-20th-century calf. Oxford: by Leonard Lichfield for Thomas Robinson, 1654 £800 Wing W.832 (+;+). Madan, Oxford Books, III, no. 2251. A critique of the Clitheroe schoolmaster (and “illuminist and antinomian sectarian” - ODNB) John Webster’s Academiarum Examen, or the Examination of Academies (1654) - “a fierce attack on the English universities, both for their claim to provide the training for the clergy and for their scholastic curricula” (ODNB). Seth Ward was then the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford and a fellow of Wadham College. In the preface, signed by “N.S.” but by John Wilkins, then Warden of Wadham College, they quickly assert their dissatisfaction with Webster’s work - “besides a Torrent of affected insignificant tautologies with some peevish unworthy reflections, & the repetition of some old & trite cavills, together with severall bundles of grosse mistaks there was little else to be expected from this Author.” (preface by John Wilkins, p.1). “According to Wilkins and Ward, Webster was ignorant both of the sciences he wanted to promote, and of the actual state of the universities he wanted to reform. The universities, they maintained, were no longer dominated by Aristotelianism, but had already adopted the new experimental philosophy. In addition, they criticized Webster for having contaminated the ‘sound’ experimental philosophy with alchemy, astrology, cabbala, Rosicrucianism, and magic.” (ODNB). Also included is Ward’s response to Thomas Hobbes’s criticisms of the universities as expounded in Leviathan (1651) - a book which was to be burnt publicly at Oxford by order of the University in 1683. Ward “vindicated the universities from the ‘calumniations’ of Hobbes by saying, first, that the universities were by 1654 no longer the citadels of scholastic thought which Hobbes in the Leviathan supposed them to be, and second, that what Hobbes really was objecting to was the universities ‘crime’ of asserting ‘the Attributes of God and the Naturall Immortality of the Soules of Men’.” - Samuel I. Mintz, The Hunting of Leviathan (1962), p. 49. Provenance: Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857) Oxford antiquary and book collector. Bliss has also added his characteristic “P” in manuscript before signature “B” (to form his initials) and has also added, just to the right, the number 8 indicating the year he acquired this copy (1808 - a fairly early purchase) and below his cost code “a:” and a note identifying the initials “N.S.” at the end of the preface as “J. W. / John Wilkins” and “H.D.” at the end of the main text as “Seth Ward”. and with manuscript bibliographical note in his hand attached to the front flyleaf providing details of the anonymous author and again identifying Wilkins as the author of the preface.

[440] [Another copy of the above] First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 65, [1] pp. Top margin closely trimmed with page numbers cropped on A2, B3, D2-3, gatherings A-B lightly stained, small hole to D3 affecting the text. Internally crisp and clean. Modern brown half calf and boards. Oxford: by Leonard Lichfield for Thomas Robinson, 1654 £750 MAGGS BROS LTD 191

[441] WASE (Christopher). Considerations concerning Free-Schools, as settled in England First Edition. 8vo., [8], 112 pp., engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre on title. Damp-staining to foot of title-page and leaves a2-B4, lightly spotted throughout. Mid-20th-century quarter green morocco and marbled boards, old flyleaves preserved). Oxford: at the Theatre; and are to be sold there. And in London at Mr Simon Millers, 1678 £700 W659 (+;+). Christopher Wase (1625?-1690) was a distant relative of the diarist John Evelyn by marriage (he was the son of a first cousin of Evelyn’s mother-in-law Lady Browne). Educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge but ejected in 1649 he went into exile on the Continent, publishing a translation of Sophocles’ Electra dedicated to the exiled Princess Elizabeth Stuart at The Hague in 1649. He spent a short time serving with the Spanish army against the French but was apparently captured and then released. He became headmaster of Dedham Royal Free School in 1655 and was headmaster of Tonbridge Grammar School from 1662 to 1668. Evelyn remained friends with him, became godfather to his son, and attempted to obtain the position of Historiographer Royal for him in 1673. He translated or edited a number of classical texts, wrote an English-Latin dictionary, an essay on grammar and this treatise on educational reform in which he calls for universal education and an increase in free schools. Provenance: Mrs. M. F. Fletcher, 19th-century ink armorial stamp on the old front flyleaf.

[442] WASTFIELD (Robert). A True Testimony of Faithfull Witnesses Recorded; and set in opposition to the false Records and unrighteous proceedings of the men of this generation. Wherein the wicked designs and cruel practises of several of the Rulers, Priests and People of the County of Somerset against the innocent, are plainly discovered and Witnessed against. By those who are numbred amongst transgressors, persecuted imprisoned and reproachfully called Quakers. ... First Edition. Small 4to., 68 [i.e. 98] pp. A Little dusty, lower right corner of the verso of N3 soiled, isolated staining to the lower inside of N4, prominent staining to foot of the final leaf, fore-edges of the first few leaves creased; a very fresh, uncut copy, sewn as issued in original buff paper wrappers (spine partly defective). London: for Giles Calvert, 1657 £500 Wing W1036 (+;+). A collection of accounts of the various persecutions and trials of prominent Quaker ministers in the south-west of England. Wastfield records the public humiliations, personal threats, and imprisonments inflicted upon the Quakers by the public and clergy alike. Provenance: Five contemporary ink annotations - versos of B3, B4, C1, C3 and the recto of I3 - of which three identify the names of individuals that the text refers to anonymously and the other two longer notes that provide information that supplements the text. The longer annotation on B3v - “This folowing relation was sent to Tho[mas]: Loyd & his brethren to reade in their pulpits (as they promised) or congregations” - probably refers to Thomas Lloyd (1640-1694), the Quaker who emigrated to Pennsylvania and became an influential politician there.

[443] WATERMAN (Rev. Hugh). A Sermon preached before the Court of Guardians of the Poor in the city of Bristol at St. Peters Church April 13th. 1699. First Edition. Small 4to., [4], 40 pp. Lightly browned and spotted throughout, particularly at the end, rust spots in places, lower edges of A1-2 uncut, and with the lower fore-corner of F4 repaired. Late 19th/early 20th-century half maroon morocco and marbled boards. Bristol: by W. Bonny, 1699 £500 Wing W1053 (Bodley and Bristol Reference Collection in UK; Princeton & Yale [title-page mutilated] in USA). A sermon in which Waterman outlines his proposals for caring for the poor and destitute in Bristol. The Bristol Corporation of the Poor was established by the merchant and writer John Cary in 1696 and ran a workhouse known as St. Peter’s Hospital. Waterman died in 1746 after 57 years as rector of St. Peter’s, Bristol. Provenance: Alfred. J. Waterman, 6 Manor Park, Redland, Bristol, signature dated 1913 and a 3-page note on the front flyleaves. A 1913 clipping from a local Bristol newspaper relating to a dispute over payment for the annual sermons of the Board has been glued to the rear pastedown. Pencil note “from the Weare collection” at the head of the front pastedown. 192 MAGGS BROS LTD

TEACHING ALCHEMY AT OXFORD - REFORMING THE CURRICULA [444] WEBSTER (John). Academiarum Examen, Or the Examination of Academies. Wherein is discussed and examined the Matter, Method and Customes of Academick and Scholastick Learning, and the insufficiency thereof discovered and laid open; As also some Expedients proposed for the Reforming of Schools, and the perfecting and promoting of all kind of science. Offered to the judgements of all those that love the proficience of Arts and Sciences, and the advancement of Learning. First Edition. Small 4to., [16], 110 pp., without the final blank leaf. Title-page a little dusty, ink blot in the centre of N3-4, very light damp-staining touching the lower blank edge of M4-O4, upper edge closely shaved (occasionally touching the running-titles), early underlining and annotation on M2v. Early 20th century calf, ruled in blind, spine lettered in gilt (endleaves a little foxed). London: for Giles Calvert, 1654 £2400 Wing W1209 (+;+). A scarce work that calls for the reform of the universities on the grounds of experimental science by an author whose “importance rests on his participation in the debates concerning the reconstruction of religious and social life during the Commonwealth” (ODNB). John Webster (1611-1682), minister and schoolmaster, was associated with the Grindletonians, a radical sect based in the Yorkshire Dales. “The reform of learning is the topic of Webster’s controversial Academiarum Examen (1654) ... He went on to launch a fierce attack on the English universities both for their claim to provide the training for the clergy and for their scholastic curricula. He put forward his own plan, which was generally Baconian in its inspiration and aims, but also relied on a wide spectrum of more recent philosophical writings. “The reformed universities, according to Webster, had to promote experimental and utilitarian learning, which should include alchemy and natural magic, which he vindicated against the impostors’ misuse. His philosophical views, as expressed in his project of reform, Academiarum Examen are eclectic besides Baconianism and Helmontian iatrochemistry, he also supported the theosophy of Fludd and Boehme, and the atomism of Digby and Gassendi. Along with Van Helmont, he attacked the Aristotelians’ overestimate of human reason and stressed the role of divine illumination as the foundation of true learning aroused vehement reaction from the Oxford academics John Wilkins and Seth Ward, and from the Presbyterian writer Thomas Hall” (ODNB). Provenance: 1: “JW” or “TW”, 18th-century initials to the front free endpaper below the pencil annotation “This is one of the famous and rare books pointed out by Mr. Oldys in his British Librarian”. 2. JSC’s “Cx” cipher and pencil annotations to the front pastedown indicating that this copy was a gift from Nancy on the occasion of his 26th birthday.

[445] [WELDON (Sir Anthony), attributed to]. The Court and character of King James. Written and taken by Sir A: W being an eye, and eare witness. Published by Authority. Small 8vo., [8], 197, [3] pp., engraved portrait of James I. Minor stain at the top of the first few leaves, some light browning and occasional spots, sheet M lightly dusty, a small flaw in the margin of D4, some leaves uncut at the tail. Contemporary sheep (coming loose in the case, spine heavily worn and defective at the head, corners bumped, a small wormhole to the centre of the front cover, no pastedowns). London: by R[obert]. I[bbitson]. and are to be sold by John Wright, 1650 £175 Wing W1273A (+;+). Quires B-L are in a later setting than the other 1650 printing; quires A and M-O are in the same setting but reimposed; page number “197” is printed correctly, the list of errata removed, and the errata corrected in the reset sheets. The courtier turned parliamentarian Weldon’s name can only loosely be attributed to this work. Provenance: James Frampton (1769-1855), sheriff of Dorset, with bookplate. An earlier signature has been deleted from the front flyleaf, although a shelfmark “K7” remains.

[446] WESLEY (Samuel). The Life of our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ. An Heroic Poem: dedicated to Her Most Sacred Majesty. In Ten Books. Each Book illustrated by necessary Notes, explaining all the more difficult Matters in the whole History: Also a Prefatory Discourse concerning Heroic Poetry. First Edition. Folio. [32], 349, [3 (advertisements)] pp., engraved portrait of Jesus, engraved architectural title (long tear from the lower margin into the image repaired) and 58 engraved plates. Some light browning or spotting in places, a few short marginal tears, some corners dog-eared; lower blank outer corner on the plate at p. 21 torn away and piece [60 mm long] torn from the MAGGS BROS LTD 193 outer margin of the plate at p. 296; minor hole in the image of the plate at p. 333. Contemporary sprinkled calf, early paper spine label (joints split, front cover almost detached, piece chewed from the foot of the spine, two corners chewed). London: for Charles Harper, and Benj. Motte, 1693 £180 Wing W1371 (+;+). Bookplate removed from the front pastedown.

[447] [WESTON (Sir Richard)]. Directions left by a Gentleman to his Sonns: for the Improvement of Barren and Healthy Land, in England and Wales. First Edition. Small 4to., [12], 34 pp. Title-page soiled and damaged at the head (with loss to the rule-border) and crudely repaired on the verso of the top and bottom edges, A2 soiled and crudely repaired on the recto of the fore-margin, upper edge of B1 and C1 closely shaved (touching headlines). Mid-20th-century quarter blue morocco and marbled boards (wormhole in the lower joint). London: by E.T. and R.H. for R. Royston, 1670 £200 Wing R671 (+;+) - under Gabriel Reeve. An unacknowledged reprint (more, even, than a plagiarism) of Sir Richard Weston’s Discourse of Husbandrie used in Flanders and Brabant (1650) published by Samuel Hartlib which also appeared in editions of Samuel Hartlib his legacie. Here, one Gabriel Reeve has added a dedication to Kenrick Eyton of the Inner Temple, dated from Hackney, 14 April 1670, in which he implies he is the author (“I have been emboldned to prefix your Worthy Name to this Little Book, knowing you a Person able to Protect and Vindicate both It and the Author”) but otherwise reprints Weston’s text, including the preface, virtually word for word. The two recipes at the end, “to make Rushie Ground bear Grass” and “For Planting and Sowing Walnuts” are also lifted from Samuel Hartlib his legacie.

[448] WHITE (John). A Way to the Tree of Life: Discovered in Sundry Directions for the Profitable Reading of the Scriptures: wherein is described occasionally the nature of a Spirituall Man: and in a Digression, the Morality and Perpetuity of the Fourth Commandment in every circumstance thereof, is discovered and cleared, by John White Master of Arts and preacher of Gods word in Dorchester in the county of Dorset. First Edition. 8vo., 144, 147-344, [6 of 8] pp., without the final blank. Title-page browned and slightly shaved at the fore-edge, small piece torn away from the blank corner of A4, browned throughout with small dark marks on N6-8, final blank page stained by the turn-ins and with the edges a little ragged. Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves). London: M[iles]. F[letcher]. for. R. Royston, 1647 £500 Wing W1785 (British Library, Dr. Williams’s Library, New College Oxford, Thomas Plume’s Library in UK; Boston Public Library, W.A. Clark, Folger, Illinois, Michigan, Yale in USA; Turnbull Library in New Zealand and an imperfect copy at Toronto is mis-reported as Wing W1776). White’s instructions to his Dorchester parishioners on how to live a godly, moral life, and most importantly, how to read the scriptures The final section of the work (Z2-5) provides an explanation of how to read the entire Bible in a year with a table marking each day with the relevant Biblical chapters; in this respect the ownership note of Philip Pecke (see provenance) is particularly pleasing. White was the founding inspiration behind the Dorchester Company, a fishing enterprise which founded a short-lived colony at Cape Ann in Massachusetts (the fourth English American colonial settlement). Later he was an active supporter of the New England Company and the fledgling Massachusetts colony. “A modest, pleasant man who largely accepted the teachings of the established church, he played an important role, without ever setting foot there, in the successful settlement of puritan Massachusetts.” (ODNB). Another issue (Wing W1785A; Bodley only in the UK) has a Dorchester bookseller’s name - John Long - in the imprint. Provenance: 1: John Witham, small inscription at the foot of Z3v stating “Perlegi. febru 17mo. 1650 Jo: Witham”. 2. Philip Pecke, inscription on the verso of the errata leaf “I read through this booke Novem 4th 1658 [..] me Phill: Pecke”. Members of the Peck family, from Hingham, Norfolk, were among the founders of Hingham, Mass., in the mid-1630s. 3. Richard Parkes, manuscript note on the verso of the title-page “Richard Parkes his book bought at ye oction [auction] one of Aprill ye 3d; 1700 price 10d”. 194 MAGGS BROS LTD

[449] [WILD (Robert)]. Iter Boreale. Attempting somthing upon the Successful and Matchless March of the Lord General George Monck, from Scotland, to London, the last Winter, &c. Veni, Vidi, Vici. By a Rural Pen. Small 4to., 20 pp. Dampstaining to inner margin of title page and final leaf, final leaf guarded along the inner margin, light staining to foot of A2, minor foxing to A4, B3, C1, corner of C2 repaired, and with a stain across the text of B4. Rebound in contemporary calf from a tract volume, covers panelled in blind (rebacked, corners repaired, new end leaves, old flyleaves preserved). London: printed on St George’s Day for George Thomason, 1660 £180 Wing W2132 (+,+). One of numerous editions. “To church again, and so home to my wife; and with her read ‘Iter Boreale’, a poem, made just at the King’s coming home; but I never read it before, and now like it pretty well, but not so as it was cried up” (Samuel Pepys, Diary, Sunday 23rd August, 1663). The “rural pen” was the then Royalist sympathiser (and later nonconformist) Robert Wild. The poem celebrates General Monck’s march to London from Coldstream on the Scottish border with 5,000 foot soldiers and 2,000 horse in the winter of 1660.

[450] [WILDE (George)]. A Sermon preached upon Sunday the third of March in St. Maries Oxford, before the General Assembly of the Members of the Honourable House of Commons there Assembled. Second Edition. Small 4to., [4], 31, [1]. Title-page, A2, and E4 spotted, lighter spotting and discoloration throughout. Early 19th- century half morocco and marbled boards. “Oxford [i.e. London]: by Leonard Lichfield”, 1643 £120 Wing 2160B (British Library, Bodley, Corpus Christi Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, Linen Hall Library Belfast in UK; Chicago, Huntington, Union Theological Seminary in USA). Madan, Oxford Books, II, no. 1550. A London counterfeit reprint of the Oxford edition. A sermon delivered to the MPs who had joined Charles I at Oxford in March 1643. Wilde began his theological career as chaplain to Archbishop Laud. During the Civil War he was appointed chaplain and preacher to the King. Provenance: 1: Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857) Oxford antiquary and book collector. Bliss has also added his characteristic “P” in manuscript before signature “B” (to form his initials) and has also added, just to the right, the number 53 indicating the year he acquired this copy (1853) and below his cost code “Ea”. He has also written on the title where he acquired this copy “of Palmer”. 2: Ink note on the front pastedown: “From Dr Bliss’s sale Aug 1838 Lot 234”.

[451] [WILLIAMS (John), Bishop of Chichester]. The History of the Gunpowder-Treason. Collected from Approved Authors, as well Popish as Protestant. First Edition. Small 4to., [4], 12, 17-32 pp., with the initial imprimatur leaf. Small rust on C3r, very minor stain on D2r and with the verso of the final leaf (D4) very lightly soiled. Amateur binding of early 20th-century red boards and white spine (boards a little stained and corners bumped). London: for Richard Chiswel, 1678 £120 Wing W2705 (+;+). Provenance: William Salt Brassington (1859-1939), librarian of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Statford-on-Avon, and historian of bookbinding (he probably bound this volume himself) with bookplate.

[452] WILLIS (John). Mnemonica; or, the Art of Memory, drained out of the pure Fountains of Art & Nature. Digested into Three Books. Also, a Physical Treatise of cherishing Natural Memory; diligently collected out of divers Learned Mens Writings. First Complete Edition in English. 12mo., [16], 175, [1] pp., woodcut illustration of a stage on E4R. Browned throughout, stronger in the margins; small ink stain on D6, pp. 94-95 somewhat soiled, light marking to the fore-edges of D8 and M7-8. Early 19th- century calf; ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands (covers scuffed, joints just starting to crack and corners bumped). London: printed and are to be sold by Leonard Sowersby, 1661 £400 Wing W2812 (+;+). MAGGS BROS LTD 195

Mnemonica first appeared in Latin in 1618 followed by an English translation of the third part only in 1621. This first full English translation was produced by the printer Leonard Sowersby. The woodcut illustration of the theatre was intended as a “repository” of the mind - an image which could be recalled as an aide- mémoire. Provenance: Rev. Edward Orlebar Smith (d. 1820), Rector of Hulcote, Bedfordshire, or his 2nd son of the same name and position, armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. [453] WILLIS (Thomas). Diatribae duae Medico-philosopicae, quarum prior agit de fermentatione sive de motu intestino particularum in quovis corpore. Altera de febribus, sive de motu earundem in sanguine animalium. His accessit dissertatio epistolica de Urinis. Edition Secunda, ab Authore recognita, atque ab eodem multiplici Auctario locupletata. Second Edition. 12mo., [36], 376, [6] pp., engraved frontispiece. Dampstain to upper inner corner of A1-D1 and L1-M1, lower corners of C5-12 creased, occasional rust spotting throughout, and with a small ink stain to the blank lower margin of H6r. Later sheep, ruled in gilt (rubbed, small single worm hole to spine, headcap missing and with two pieces of leather gouged from the centre of lower board). London: Typis, Tho. Roycroft; Impensis Jo. Martin, Ja. Allestry, & Tho. Dicas, 1660 £240 Wing W2833 (+;+). The work which secured Willis’s “national and international reputation” as a physician and natural philosopher (ODNB) first published in 1659. Divided into separate tracts, the work deals with the subject of fermentation and fevers. Willis was influenced by alchemical theory and argued that all matter was composed of five chemical principles; his theories would provide the ground work for later work on contagious diseases. Provenance: Single marginal Latin annotation on H3r.

[454] [WILLIS (Thomas)]. Proteus Vinctus. Sive Æquivoca Sermonis Anglicani, ordine Alphabetico digesta, & Latine reddita. In usum Juventis Scholasticæ, cum in Dictatis vertendis, tum in instituendis Familiaribus Collectio. Authore T. W. utriusq; Academia olim in Artibus Mro. First Edition, variant issue. 8vo., [512 (with the half-title signed “A”)] pp. Light dampstaining at beginning and end, some light occasional soiling but overall a clean, crisp copy. Contemporary sheep (rebacked, front cover cracked and stained, rear cover torn- away exposing the board, corners and edges bumped and chipped). London: for E. Cotes, and are to be sold by Will. London bookseller in Newcastle, 1655 £350 Wing W2819 (British Library, Bodley, National Library of Wales, Nottingham & Newcastle Upon Tyne Central Library in UK; Newberry Library only in USA). The Huntington copy recorded by Wing is one of the other two issues, being for Richard Royston (W2819B, British Library, Bristol Central Library, Balliol College Oxford; Huntington) and for William Ballard in Bristol (W2819A, Bristol Reference Library & Huntington). A dictionary of English phrases (“Anglicisms”) with their Latin equivalents produced for the use of Bristol grammar school. Thomas Willis who began working as a schoolmaster at Isleworth in Middlesex, before emigrating to Lynn, Massachusetts in 1633 and returning to Isleworth “on the eve of the Civil War” (ODNB). As well as this dictionary of Latin idioms he also produced a children’s Latin dictionary Vestibulum linguae Latinae (1651). Proteus vinctus was republished in 1672 by William Walker as Phraseologia Anglo-Latina.

[455] WILLUGHBY (Francis). RAY (John). The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the County of Warwick, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. In Three Books. Wherein All the Birds hitherto known, being reduced into a Method sutable to their Natures, are accurately described. The Descriptions illustrated by most Elegant Figures, nearly resembling the live birds, Engraven in LXXVIII copper plates. Translated into English, and enlarged with many Additions throughout the whole Work. To which are added, Three Considerable Discourses, 1. Of the Art of Fowling [...] II. Of the Ordering of Singing Birds. III. Of Falconry. By John Ray, fellow of the Royal Society. First Edition in English. Folio., [12], 53, [3], 55-271, [3], 273-441, [7] pp., with the 78 engraved plates and the two engraved plates of snares at p. 28. Title-page browned and spotted, slightly grubby throughout with marginal browning, occasional spotting, closed tear in the outer margin of Kkk3, top corner of Kkk4 torn away (touching the rule), small blank piece torn from plate LIX; last 40 plates increasingly stained at the outer edge, eventually working into the image towards the end and the final plate damaged in 196 MAGGS BROS LTD the outer margin but roughly repaired with the outer half of the plate backed with paper at an early-ish date. Late 18th-century marbled boards (rebacked with leather, corners and edges bumped and worn). London: by A[ndrew]. C[larke]. for John Martyn, 1678 £1600 Wing W2880 (+;+). Kaynes, Ray, no. 39. Ray was one of the executors of Willughby’s will and took it upon himself to make public his unpublished work after his death. A translation of the Latin original appeared in 1676 and this has been seen as marking the beginning of scientific ornithology. There are many corrections in this edition, a number of British birds are christened for the first time, and the three discourses are additional. They were presumably added, together with three extra plates, to increase the popular appeal of the English edition. The plates illustrate birds of prey, fowl, coastal birds, songbirds and others; the two plates at the beginning show different methods for catching birds. There are three additional plates, including the two plates of snares, not in the Latin edition.

[456] WINCHILSEA (, Earl of). A True and Exact Relation of the Late Prodigious Earthquake & Eruption of Mount Ætna, or, Monte-Gibello; as it came in a letter written to His Majesty from Naples by the Right Honorable the Earle of Winchilsea, His Majesties late ambassador at Constantinople, who in his return from thence, visiting Catania in the island of Sicily, was an Ey-witness [sic] of that Dreadfull Spectacle. Together with a more particular Narrative of the same, as it is Collected out of severall Relations sent from Catania. Published by Authority. First Edition. Small 4to., 30, [2 (blank)] pp., lacking the folding engraved plate, but with an 18th-century engraving of Vesuvius erupting in 1630 loosely inserted. Damp-stained, more heavily at the end, upper edge closely trimmed in places, one page number cropped. Late 19th-century half maroon morocco marbled boards (extremities rubbed, corners bumped). [London]: by T. Newcombe,1669 £120 Wing W2967 (+;+). Reprinted in the same year in Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge, Mass. Provenance: Henry John Beresford Clements (1869-1940), of Killadoon, Co. Kildare, with bookplate.

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[457] [WINSTANLEY (William)]. Poor Robins perambulation From Saffron-Walden To London: Performed this month of July, 1678. With Allowance, July 11. 1678. Ro. L’Estrange. First Edition. Small 4to., [2], 22 pp. Light soiling on the title and pp.4/5 and a single small wormhole to the inner margin throughout (intensifying in gathering C). Mid-20th-century flexible boards. London: for T.E. and are to be Sold by the General Assembly of Hawkers, 1678 £1500 Wing W3076 (British Library & Harvard only). Only edition of a verse account of a merry journey made from Saffron Walden to London in November of 1677 including descriptions of the inns and alehouses in each town and their various beers and ales. William Winstanley (d.1698), a freeman of Saffron Walden, was a great admirer of John Taylor the “Water Poet” and his outlook and writing style informed much of the former’s work. Winstanley claimed to have written “above sevenscore books” most of them being literary or historical compilations such as his Lives of the most famous English poets (1687). “Winstanleys most important contribution to Restoration culture, however, was not his compilations but his invention of the persona of ‘Poor Robin’. He did not invent the name Poor Robin, which had appeared as a character in a ballad as early as 1641, but he was the first to use it as a pseudonym, a pseudonym that came to take on a life of its own. The first work ascribed to Poor Robin was an almanac in 1662, which was suppressed as scandalous and of which no copies survive ... Winstanley’s innovation was to combine the parodic almanac, which had flourished in the interregnum, with the standard information available in the traditional almanac ... The Poor Robin almanacs were followed by a flood of material aimed at a broad audience and ascribed to Poor Robin.” (ODNB).

[458] WINTERTON (Ralph), editor. Poetae Minores Graeci. Hesiodus, Theocritus, Moschus, Bion Smyrn., Simmias Rhod., Musaeus, Theognis, Phocylides, [...] Quibus subjungitur eorum potissimum quae ad Philosophiam Moralem pertinet, Index Utilis. Accedunt etiam Observationes Radulphi Wintertoni in Hesiodum. Eighth Edition. 12mo., [8], 224, 227-533, [91] pp. Text in Latin & Greek on opposite pages. Title-page lightly soiled and spotted with three small holes from the stitches in the inner margin, last page dusty, some occasional spotting and soiling, a few headlines shaved by the binder. Early 18th-century calf-backed boards lined with light-blue paper (head of spine chipped). Cambridge: Ex Officina Joan. Hayes, [sold by] J. Ray, E. Dobson, P. Campbell, & J. Milner, Dublinij Bibliopolis, 1699 £240 Wing P2734A recording Bodley & National Trust [Ickworth] only; no copy in USA). A popular Cambridge textbook for students edited by the Professor of Physic (1601-36), first published in 1635 and last in 1712. Provenance: 1: A blind-stamped name on the front cover has been scratched-out. 2: Wolfe family, of Forenaughts, Ireland, with mid-18th-century armorial bookplate.

VERSE ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON [459] [WISEMAN (Samuel), attributed to]. A Short and Serious Narrative of Fatal Fire, with its Diurnal and Nocturnal Progression, from Sunday Morning (being) the Second of September, Anno Mirabili 1666. Until Wednesday Night following. A Poem. As also Londons Lamentation to her Regardless Passengers. With Allowance. First Edition. Small 4to., 12 pp., title within a thick black woodcut mourning border. Probably washed. Early 20th-century dark red morocco by Wood. London: for Peter Dring, 1667 £1500 Wing W3115A (British Library, Glasgow, Guildhall Library, Museum of London, National Library of Scotland and St Paul’s Cathedral in U.K; Folger, Harvard, Huntington & Williams College in USA). Wiseman’s work, while in verse, functions as a newsbook that acquainted its audience with the harsh realities of the Great Fire. According to Wiseman, the fire destroyed 273 acres, 130,000 houses and 89 parishes. The poem spans a period of five days beginning on the night of Saturday 1 September 1666 when “some few glowing sparks” began to take hold in the City. Quickly the personified fire produces a “doleful, dreadful, hideous note” (A1v) as Sunday morning began. The poet stresses how the fire does not discriminate as the “Flames lash the Rich man from his wealthy Store, / And bid the ruin’d Young man work for more” (A2r). By Monday morning “Churches & Chappels, and brave Halls pull down / And throw their towering Turrets to the ground, / And that which had withstood the hand of Age, / Was spoil’d and ruin’d by its 198 MAGGS BROS LTD

rav’nous rage” (A3v). He poignantly describes how St Paul’s Cathedral, which had been used as a storage facility for tradesmen (most notably the booksellers of the area), is now engulfed by the flames as it “staggers” and “sinks within its hot Embraces” (B1r). Provenance: JSC’s bookplate and purchase note “Bought 1936 FROM MYERS” on the front pastedown.

[460] [WISHART (George)]. Montrose Redivivus, or the Portraicture of James late Marquess of Montrose, Earl of Kincardin, &c. 1. In his Actions, in the years 1644. 1645. and 1646. for Charles the First. 2. In his Passions, in the years 1649. 1650. for Charles the Second K. of Scots. First Edition in English. 8vo., [8], 200 pp., engraved portrait by P. Pontius in Paris. Light marginal browning, A3r dust-soiled, and very lightly damp-stained in places, probably washed. Late 19th-century sprinkled calf by F. Bedford (front cover detached, spine bands lightly scuffed and chipped). London: for Jo. Ridley, 1652 £120 Wing W3124 (+;+). A translation from Latin of the account of the campaign of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose against the in Scotland 1644-46 written by his chaplain and published in 1647 with the addition of an account of Montrose’s final campaign in 1649/50, his capture, trial and execution. Montrose was hanged at Edinburgh in May 1650. Wishart was made Bishop of Edinburgh after the Restoration. Provenance: Charles George Milnes Gaskell (1842-1919), politician, with armorial bookplate.

[461] WITHER (George), part author. The Grateful Acknowledgment of a Late Trimming Regulator. Humbly presented to that Honest and Worthy Country Gentleman who is come lately to Town, and stiles himself by the name of Multum in Parvo. With a most strange and wonderful Prophecy, taken out of Britains Genious. Written in the time of the late Wars, by that Famous and Divine Poet of our Age, Captain George Withers. First Edition. Small 4to., 12 pp. Title-page very slightly soiled and with an old manuscript tract number in the upper fore-corner, small hole through and some soiling to the final leaf (hole touching two lines of text on the verso). Disbound. London: in the Year, 1688 £280 Wing G1579A (Longleat House & Worcester College Oxford in UK; American Antiquarian Society, Chicago, Harvard, Huntington & Yale in USA). In verse throughout. Although attributed to Wither it is in fact only the second poem, “The Prophecy”, which is by him and it is extracted from Prospopoeia Britannica (1648). The first poem has been attributed (“erroneously” ESTC) to John Pennyman and is apparently a reply to Multum in parvo: lately come to town. ... By T.P. an orthodox and loyal Protestant, although by some nick-named, a latitudinarian trimmer (1688). A facsimile of this was published, but not widely distributed, by JSC’s Toucan Press in 1978.

[462] WITHER (George). Speculum Speculativum: or, a considering-glass; being an inspection into the present and late sad Condition of these Nations; with some cautional expressions made thereupon by George Wither, immediately after His Majesties Restauration. … Hereby also are some Glimmerings discovered of what will probably ensue hereafter. 8vo., [12], 146, 149-166 pp. Title-page lightly soiled and frayed at edges, small burn mark to the blank upper right corner of A4-5 and the blank fore-margin of A7-8, lightly soiled and stained throughout, small worm-track to the upper blank margin of the final sheet, book-block separating from binding. Contemporary sheep (lacking endleaves, rubbed, corners bumped, headcaps damaged). London, Written June XIII, MDCLX. And there Imprinted in the same year [1660] £200 Wing W3192 (British Library, Edinburgh University, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh University, British Library & Trinity College Dublin in UK and Ireland ; + in USA). Wither’s popular verse “plea for reconciliation” published immediately after the restoration of Charles II. This work appears to have been issued in at least three editions in its first year of publication, and much confusion surrounds their identification. This copy has the variant spelling ‘Glass’ in the third line of the title, p.99 mis-numbered ‘98’, and the three line errata on p.166 which corresponds to Wing W3192. MAGGS BROS LTD 199

[463] WOLLASTON (William) The Design of part of the Book of Ecclesiastes: or, the Unreasonableness of Mens restless contentions for the present Enjoyments, represented in an English poem. First Edition. 8vo., 163, [5] pp. Title-page slightly grubby and with some minor ink stains, lower blank corner of A2 (from a crease) and E7 (from a flaw) torn-away, occasional spotting or slight stains, a single wormhole through C1-4 (touching text in places). Contemporary sprinkled calf, covers panelled in blind (top and bottom spine panels renewed, corners bumped). London: for James Knapton, 1691 £240 Wing W3253 (+;+). First appearance in print of the assistant-master at Birmingham and future poetical moral-philosopher famous for his lengthy and hugely successful poem The Religion of Nature Delineated (1722). Provenance: Deleted ink signature on the front pastedown and various booksellers’ pencil notes (some deleted).

[464] [WOOD (Thomas)]. Juvenalis Redivivus. Or the First Satyr of Juvenal taught to speak plain English. A Poem. First Edition. Small 4to., [8], 30, [6] pp. Title-page soiled and with several short fractures from the type around weak points in the paper and a small hole where the full-stop after “POEM” has punched-though, small tear to fore-margin of A1-2, and F2r stained, a small piece torn from the fore-margin between E4-F2 (not affecting text). Mid 20th-century quarter blue morocco and marbled boards (spine slightly faded). [London:] in the Year 1683, and are to be sold by most Booksellers £220 Wing W3410 (+;+) A satirical parody of the first satyr of Juvenal attacking Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, etc.. The original Latin text appears at the bottom of each page beneath the translation. Provenance: “R. [-]”, illegible early signature on the title page.

[465] WORLIDGE (John). Systema agriculturae, the Mystery of Husbandry discovered. Treating of the several New and most Advantagious Ways of Tilling, Planting, Sowing, Manuring, Ordering, Improving of all sorts of Gardens, Orchards, Meadows, Pastures, Corn-lands, Woods & Coppices. As also of Fruits, Corn, Grain, Pulse, New-hays, Cattel, Fowl, Beats, Bees, Silk- worms, Fish, &c. With an Account of the several Instruments and Engines used in this Profession. To which is added Kalendarium Rusticum: or, the Husbandmans Monethly Directions. [...] And Dictionarium Rusticum: The Interpretation of Rustick Terms. [...] First Edition. Folio. [32], 278, [6] pp., additonal engraved title-page, woodcut illustrations of water wheels (H1v, H2v) and a seed drill (L4r). Preliminary “Explanation of the Frontispiece” with three worm holes, lower edge of engraved title repaired, small worm hole to the middle of the first three leaves, small worm hole to the blank margin of gatherings A-H, occasional light browning, circular stain to Mm1. Contemporary sheep, spine with red morocco and gilt label (covers heavily scuffed, corners bumped, upper headcap torn, lower corner of rear board cracked). London: by T. Johnson for Samuel Speed, 1669 £350 Wing W3598 (+;+). “The first systematic treatise on farming”, which aimed at assembling all the written and practical knowledge of the time. Donaldson adds that “it contains much more useful and enlightened observations than any which had previously appeared”. First published in 1669, the book ran through five editions before Worlidge’s death in c.1700. Provenance: H. Raymond Barnett, modern bookplate. 200 MAGGS BROS LTD

[466] WORLIDGE (John). Systema Agriculturae; the Mystery of Husbandry discovered. Treating of the several New and most Advantagious Ways of Tilling, Planting, Sowing, Manuring, Ordering, Improving of all sorts of Gardens, Orchards, Meadows, Pastures, Corn-lands, Woods & Coppices. [...] The Third Edition carefully Corrected and Amended, with one whole Section added, and many large and useful Additions throughout the whole Work. By J. W. Gent. Third Edition, corrected. Folio., [28 (including “The Explanation of the Frontispiece” and the engraved title], 72, 83-272, [2 subtitle to “Kalendarium Rusticum” misbound from p. 262], 273- 300, 307-134 [i.e. 334], [6 (table)] pp., additional engraved title- page and one engraved plate of a water-wheel and a water-cart (p.17), both by F. H. Van Hove, separate “Kalendarium rusticum” title-page misbound after p. 272 instead of p. 262. Short worm-trail in the lower margin of the first few leaves, small piece torn from the fore-margin of E2, large rust spot on I1 and with some occasional light staining in places. Contemporary calf (rebacked, covers worn and rather crazed by damp, some insect damage along the lower edges, new endleaves). London: for Tho. Dring, and are to be sold by R. Clavel, 1681 £350 Wing W3600A (+;+).

[467] WOTTON (Henry) Reliquiae Wottoniane: or, a collection of lives, letters, poems; with Characters of Sundry Personages: and other Incomparable Pieces of Language and Art. Also additional Letters to several Persons, not before Printed. The Third Edition, with large Additions. Third Edition. 8vo., [88], 75, 72-412, 411-582, [2] pp., four engraved portriats by W. Dolle of Wotton, Charles I, Essex and Buckingham. Portrait of Wotton and title-page foxed, minor repairs to the corner of a5-7. Early 20th-century green morocco; covers and spine bordered with a small gilt sequin and dot tool, smooth spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt (spine a littled faded). London: by T. Roycroft, for R. Marriott, F. Tyton, T. Collins, and J. Ford, 1672 £180 Wing W3650 (+;+). This third edition includes “additional letters to several persons: now first published” (p.483-582). Leaves L5-6 are cancelled. Provenance: 1: “G. Smith 0:1:6”, small ?18th-century signature in the blank upper corner of the title-page. 2: Pencil note by JSC noting its purchase from George’s, Bristol, in 1990.

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